MALVERN, Pa., July 16 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Siemens
Healthcare announced that the newly-released Final Rule on
‘Meaningful Use’ of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) provides an
important boost to its ongoing campaign to help healthcare
providers realize quality and efficiency gains through the use of
health information technology. The guidelines outline specific
criteria hospitals and eligible providers must meet through use of
their EHR in order to qualify for incentive payments as stated in
the HITECH provision of the American Recovery & Reinvestment
Act (ARRA) , as well as the requirements against
which EHRs will be officially certified.
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“We’re encouraged that the Center for Medicare and Medicaid
Services (CMS) and Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) have
completed these important regulations, providing our customers
needed framework as to what constitutes a meaningful user of an
Electronic Health Record and a certified EHR system, and also
providing an important catalyst to spur further health IT adoption
across the U.S. healthcare system,” said Charlene Underwood, Director, Government
and Industry Affairs, Siemens Health
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