Meaningful Use

The President and CEO of HIMSS highlights some of the major announcements and activities at HIMSS16, including new government funding for health IT and the expanding global involvement at the conference.

Arguing that too many well-meaning providers are facing financial penalties from meaningful use, the American Hospital Association called on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services this week to offer more flexibility.

More than 30 healthcare provider organizations have banded together to urge the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to adopt a 90-day reporting period for meaningful use measures in 2016, rather than full-year reporting as CMS has proposed.

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Meaningful use: was it meaningful, useful, neither or both? HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors lock horns on the hotly contested program which is set to be gradually phased out. Hosted by Beth Jones Sanborn, Managing Editor of Healthcare Finance News.

Value-based program will score physicians on quality, resource use, practice improvement and certified technology.

As policy wonks and advocates battle over just how much meaningful use will likely change in 2016, the Physician Quality Reporting System might have snuck up on healthcare IT staffs tasked with implementing new technology platforms.

Have you heard of the #HIMSS16 MixTape? Well, Colin Hung is the man who put that together.

IT veteran Laura Young will share best practices for health information exchange among long-term post-acute care and mental and behavioral health providers  at HIMSS16.

While rural providers have adopted health IT at the same time or at greater rates as their urban counterparts, meaningful use varies dramatically among them, according to a recent HealthAffairs study.