A “Meaningful Use” Certification Update
October 11, 2010 Last December, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the long-awaited proposed definition of "meaningful use" of electronic health records (EHRs) that enables physicians to share in the $20 billion in incentive payments allocated by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH). And in late August, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) named Certification Commission for Health Information Technology's (CCHIT) and the Drummond Group, Inc. as the first ONC-Authorized Testing and Certification Bodies (ONC-ATCB), which . . .
