Arkansas Optometric clinics receive $72,000 in Meaningful Use Incentives
-- January 13, 2012

Podiatry Institute Chicago Conference - December 2 - 4, 2011 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel & Conference Center Chicago O’Hare in Rosemont, IL. Illinois Podiatric Medical Association, co-sponsor.

Delays Force Feds To Propose EHR Reporting Changes
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said it plans to allow eligible professionals to attest in 2012 that they have used their electronic health records to collect data on clinical quality measures as part of the CMS criteria for "Meaningful Use" of EHRs.

If your an eligible professional (EP) who has successfully attested for the Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program, and haven't received your incentive payment yet, you may want to read this from the CMS FAQ section of their website?

CMS to start meaningful use incentive payments in May 2011
-- WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will begin to make meaningful use incentive payments to eligible physicians and hospitals as early as May 2011, according to a senior CMS official, who detailed steps the agency is taking to start up the incentive program.

Hearing on Meaningful Use of Health IT: Charles Jarvis Opening Statement
-- Watch a video of Charlie Jarvis delivering a testimony on behalf of the EHRA to the U.S. House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee.

U.S. standards set for electronic medical records
-- (Reuters) - Doctors and hospitals will have to digitize medical records and meet certain criteria to secure a slice of an estimated $27 billion in government incentives to modernize medical files, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday.

Finding My Way to Electronic Health Records
-- July 13, 2010 -- Regina Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A.
The New England Journal of Medicine