Medical Industry News

eClinicalWorks Ranks First for Market Share in Small Physician Practices; Scores Highly on Functionality for Mid-to-Large Physician Practices

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) and eClinicalWorks announced today an agreement to establish a three-year joint initiative to provide a customized electronic medical record for ASPS Member Surgeons. The agreement, which brings together the world's largest specialty society of plastic surgeons with one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare IT, will leverage both organizations' respective strengths to develop and deliver the latest technological advances in electronic health records to plastic surgery practices nationwide.

A significant number of medical group practices as well as several state Medicaid programs are not ready for the federally mandated conversion to the ASC X12 Version 5010 electronic transaction standards, according to the Medical Group Management Association-American College of Medical Practice Executives. The group is calling on the CMS to push back the looming Jan. 1 compliance deadline on the upgrade by at least six months.

Proposed Meaningful Use Timeline Changes Encourage Adoption of EHRs

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CMS Has Issued Nearly $2B in EHR Incentive Pay During Past Year

During Wednesday's Health IT Policy Committee meeting, a CMS official delivered a presentation showing that Medicare and Medicaid each have distributed nearly $1 billion in incentive payments during the first year of the meaningful use program, Health Data Management reports.