Medi-Cal Extends EHR Attestation Deadline The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) has received federal authorization to extend the 2012 attestation deadline to April 30, 2013. March 18, 2013 EHR EHR, EHR attestation deadline, Medi-Cal State Level Registry, 2012 EHR Attestation 0 0 Comment Read More »
Getting Used to Electronic Health Record From personal experience... transitioning to a paperless practice/EHR implementation at an Internist's office. November 2, 2012 EHR, SFMS Member EMR, EHR, Toni Brayer 0 0 Comment Read More »
Physicians Input Needed for CALHIPSO Data Analytics/EHR Program; Stipends Available All SFMS physician members are invited to participate in a 7/31 focus group regarding CalHIPSO’s development of a Data Analytics Pilot Project. The new CALHIPSO project is intended to offer physicians, medical groups, and other health care organizations the ability to extract and analyze their own electronic health information in whatever manner may be desired for the purposes of quality assurance/improvement. July 17, 2012 SFMS Member Events, Technology EHR, physician focus group, CALHIPSO 0 0 Comment Read More »
California Physicians' EHR Systems Fall Short of Meaningful Use Criteria Although most California physicians use electronic health record systems, only 30% of them use EHR systems that have the ability to meet the requirements of the meaningful use program. June 18, 2012 EHR, Physician Resource, Technology, UCSF EHR, meaningful use 0 0 Comment Read More »
California to help health providers secure Medicaid incentive payments for demonstrating meaningful use. California has set a goal of having 10,000 eligible health care providers by June receive Medicaid incentive payments for demonstrating meaningful use of certified electronic health records, according to a CMS blog post published recently by National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari and CMS Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner. April 4, 2012 EHR, News, Physician Resource, SFMS Member Events, Technology CalHIPSO , EHR, EHR assistance, Lumetra , meaningful use 0 0 Comment Read More »