Contents tagged with meaningful use
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Texas Family Physician - Vol. 67 No. 2, Spring 2016
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TMF Health Quality Institute: Helping you succeed in the transformation from volume to value is … more
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All hands on deck
By Dale Ragle, MD
TAFP President, 2014-2015Welcome colleagues to a new year, a new Congress, and a new Texas Legislature. On all fronts, health care is evolving. These changes present family physicians tremendous opportunities to shape our future health care system. It’s up to all of us as family physicians to advocate for our specialty in the halls where decisions are made that affect our patients and our practices.
In Washington, D.C., the 114th Congress is well under way and is busy on a number of health care issues. AAFP’s advocacy work is focused on fixing Medicare’s broken payment model, changing Meaningful Use requirements, delaying ICD-10, and reforming graduate medical education funding. Another area in which AAFP is concentrating efforts is in making payment for direct primary care services a qualified health benefit under IRS rules. This would enable patients to pay for direct primary care with pre-tax HSA and FLEX account dollars, a move that would aid the expansion of this emerging and promising model of practice.
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Do EHR mandates exist?
Do EHR mandates exist?
It depends. What is your definition of a mandate? You do not have to use an electronic health record in your practice, but if you don’t, Medicare penalties will be incurred … more
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Stage 2 of the electronic health record incentive programs: Building from Stage 1
Stage 2 of the electronic health record incentive programs: Building from Stage 1
By David Nilasena, M.D.Chief Medical Officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Southwest Region … more
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Provide patients clinical summaries to help meet meaningful use
Provide patients clinical summaries to help meet meaningful use
One of the most difficult meaningful use measures that practices must meet is the one requiring them to give patients a clinical … more
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Texas Family Physician - Vol. 64 No. 2, Spring 2013
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Damage control: Mending Texas’ women’s health care safety net The health care safety net for … more
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Feb. 28 is Medicare EHR attestation deadline
Feb. 28 is Medicare EHR attestation deadline
posted 02.14.13
Physicians participating in the Medicare electronic health record incentive program have until Feb. 28 to complete their meaningful … more
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Defining the meaning of “meaningful use”
By I.L. Balkcom IV, M.D.
TAFP PresidentShhhh! Don’t tell anyone, but I am attempting to practice on my laptop so I might understand how to have a “meaningful” encounter with my patient. I have made progress in technology in that I even sent our chief operating officer, Kathy McCarthy, an e-mail this year—a proud moment in my technological infancy. Now I find myself immersed in a small screen with small print and myriad options for the EHR. As Peanuts would say, “ARRRGHH!” as I erase an entire page by accident.
Now for those of you who are fortunate enough to know all things computer or young enough to have grown up with iPhones, laptops, and MP3 players, I heartily congratulate you. Some of us less technologically gifted are still learning how to turn on these infernal machines and not to treat them like coke machines—beat and kick the “heck” out of them. I wish so often they would say something so I could keep up my tirade. Oh, I forgot. They do talk to you now.
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Health information exchanges take off in Texas
Health information exchanges take off in Texas
posted 04.12.12
One component of meaningful use of health information technology, the process through which physicians can earn incentive bonuses … more
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CMS announces next stage for providers adopting electronic health records
CMS announces next stage for providers adopting electronic health records
posted 03.06.12
The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services announced the proposed rule for the second stage of the … more