Additional EHR Incentive Resources

Meaningful Use:

• CMS's Meaningful Use Beginners Guide – 85-page program overview

• Meaningful Use Matrix – Stage 1 Requirements

• CMS Website on EHR Incentives Program

• CMS' detailed defintions of meaningful use measures

• CMS Meaningful Use Educational Resources page

• My EHR Participation Timeline: CMS tool for determining your stage of meaningful use, reporting period, and incentive

• FAQs regarding EHR Incentives on CMS Website (continually updated)

• CMS EHR Information Center: 1-888-734-6433

• SRS Government Affairs: Contact Lynn Scheps, Vice President, Government Affairs

• List of providers who have received Medicare EHR Incentive payments

Legislation and Regulations:

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) - text of the legislation

The following two sections of the ARRA bill comprise the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act:

• Title XIII, Division A (Appropriations Provisions), Health Information Technology

• Title IV, Division B (Tax, Unemployment, Health, State Fiscal Relief, and Other Provisions, Medicare and Medicaid Health Information Technology: Miscellaneous Medicare Provisions

Final Rule on Meaningful Use: Electronic Health Record Incentive Program, 7/13/2010

Final Rule on Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification – released 12/21/09

Final Rule for Meaningful Use Stage 2, September 4, 2012

Government HIT Committees

• HIT Policy Committee: Membership, Presentations, Meeting Dates, Meeting Summaries and Transcripts

• HIT Standards Committee: Membership, Presentations, Meeting Dates, Meeting Summaries and Transcripts

SRS Speaks in the Media

• SRSsoft to Attain Government Certification for EMR Delivering Productivity-Focused Meaningful Use
  December 2, 2010

• Evan Steele at MGMA 2010
  EHRtv sits down with Evan Steele, CEO of SRSsoft, to discuss the current healthcare IT environment and meaningful use EHR certification.

• The Voice of the Physician is Heard in Washington
  August 18, 2009

• SRS Applauds CCHIT for Listening to the Voice of the Physician
  July 2, 2009

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