The Harnett County Health Department is proud to announce they have met attestation criteria by implementing Patagonia Electronic Health Record Technology. The Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive program provides incentive payments to eligible health care professionals and organizations as they implement or demonstrate meaningful use of Electronic Health Record Technology. This advancement has […]
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Is your EHR vendor holding you hostage with exorbitant Meaningful Use upgrade costs? Despite the fact that old, legacy Electronic Health Record (EHR) software is very cumbersome to use and is grossly inadequate for electronic charting and billing, public health departments (with an existing EHR) are reluctant to start over with a new system. […]
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Franklin County Health Department was among a long list of several local health departments that successfully attested for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) Meaningful Use incentive program, with the help of their EHR provider, Patagonia Health of Cary, NC. For many health facilities, the attestation process is still quite foreign and can […]
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There are still many Public Health Departments that think they are not required to participate in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) EHR Incentive Program. But public health departments are not exempt from Meaningful Use requirements and many departments have qualifying healthcare providers that should certainly take steps to get their EHR Medicaid […]
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In order to successfully attest to Meaningful Use (MU), public health eligible professionals (EPs) must comply with 15 core objectives established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). A big part of this includes complying with HIPAA’s privacy and security rule through risk analysis requirements. CMS’s Core Objective to “Protect Electronic Health […]
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