A Summer Of New Developments For EHRs & Meaningful Use

A Summer Of New Developments For EHRs & Meaningful Use Just as we are going to press with our annual EHR edition of the OPEN MINDS Management Newsletter, a variety of news stories about electronic health records (EHR) and EHR incentives have been grabbing my attention. Three recent developments in particular have caught my eye—incentive payments, program integrity, and the push to expand the meaningful use program to behavioral health care providers. Incentive Payments First of all, there is finally real money. On May 19, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare EHR Incentive Program wrote the . . .