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MIPS Audits: Lessons Learned from Meaningful Use

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest blog post by Jim Tate, Founder of EMR Advocate & MIPS Consulting. Just as the Meaningful Use (MU) EHR Incentive program brought potential audits to providers, so it will be with the MIPS program. The MU program […].

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EHR Optimization – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 88

Healthcare IT Today

Many people are tired of hearing about EMR and EHR. That feels like something we talked about a decade ago when meaningful use was hot and now we’re ready to move on. Many people are tired of hearing about EMR and EHR. Efforts to improve it can make a big difference in your organization.

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Key Perspectives on Virtual Care with HCTec and Qure4u

Healthcare IT Today

While virtual care doesn’t have quite the same funding that EMR had with meaningful use, there are a lot of similarities to where we’re at today with virtual care as compared to where we were with EMR back when the government poured down $36 billion of stimulus money on EMR.

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Asparia Chatbot Integration with Epic Yields a Seamless Experience for Patients and Epic Users

Healthcare IT Today

If I were to map out the phases of EMR, it would look like this: EMR Adoption. Rapid EMR adoption and implementation fueled by the generous government incentive program (Meaningful Use) EMR Consolidation.

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Modernizing Medicine To Pay $45 Million To Settle False Claims, Kickback Allegations

Healthcare IT Today

These financial arrangements caused healthcare providers to submit false reimbursement claims for pathology services, along with false claims for Meaningful Use incentives arising from the use of ModMed’s technology. For example, in 2021 CareCloud Health agreed to pay $3.8

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Practice Fusion to Pay $145 Million In Fines To Resolve Kickback Investigations

Healthcare IT Today

Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based EHR vendor with a controversy-rich history, has agreed to pay $145 million to settle allegations that it engaged in a kickback scheme designed to increase opioid prescriptions and issues with their meaningful use EHR certification. This had been […].

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Looking Back at the Last Decade of Health IT – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 26

Healthcare IT Today

Join us as we discuss the biggest topics of the last decade and also the hot topics for 2019. Government Regulations – Meaningful Use. Here's a summary of some of the top topics we discuss: Last Decade. Cloud Acceptance. Cybersecurity Explosion. Healthcare Consolidation. Physician Burnout. * Big Tech Entering Healthcare.