For Colorado hospital leader, IT staff & Lab staff — In partnership with the Colorado Hospital Association (CHA), the Colorado Rural Health Center (CRHC), Quality Health Network (QHN) and the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO), the Laboratory Interoperability Cooperative (LIC) is pleased to invite you to a free...

As a Critical Access Hospital (CAH), keeping your Regional Extension Center (REC) engaged as you attest to Meaningful Use will not only save you time but it may help increase your likelihood of receiving your full Incentive Payment. As one of the RECs in Colorado, CRHC has been working...

CMS is holding a National Provider Call on Monday, March 12, from 10:30 – 12:00 pm MDT for eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs) to provide an overview of the proposed rule for Stage 2 for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive...

This week we announced that eligible professionals and hopsitals can now register and attest for Medicaid incentives, if they qualify. The first year’s incentive is merely based on “AIU” or acquire, implement or upgrade to a Certified EHR system and not demonstrating the need for 90 days of meaningful...

Recently, there has been some confusion about the Medicare eRX program and the incentives / penalties. For RHC physicians, they are exempt from this since Medicare does not take into account the place of service code 72 on the Claim that indicates an RHC. Thus RHC providers are exempt from both...

Registration is now open for two health information technology (IT) and quality webinars in March sponsored by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): ·         “Using Health IT for Patient Safety” Friday, March 23, 2:00 PM (ET)  Click here to register: http://webcast.streamlogics.com/audience/index.asp?eventid=24836367 ·         “Overview of Meaningful Use Stage 2...