Healthcare IT Update

Non-Physician Providers Aren’t Considered ‘EPs’ in Medicare EHR Incentive Program

Don’t miss out on this EP list, plus the latest HIT lingo from CMS CMS reps want to make sure healthcare providers optimize your chances of collecting from the electronic health record (EHR) incentive program, which could net an eligible professional (EP) $44,000 over a five-year period. The agency’s proposal regarding the incentive program spells out who can participate, and what type of  EHR you’ll have to use, according to a Feb. 21 CMS-sponsored Physicians, Nurses, and Allied Health Professionals Open Door Forum. You should know …

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A Stimulus HIT Acronyms Crash Course: The Opera

3 Little HIT Acronyms Yes, you read it right. The opera, or the ‘interoperetta.’ If you’re a Gilbert & Sullivan fan, or even if you’re not, you’ve got to check out this 4-minute crash course on the HIT provisions in the stimulus bill. The man behind the ‘music’ is Dr. Ross Martin. He works on HIT for Deloitte Consulting, so he’s a little more … enthusiastic … about HIT than most, reports The Wall Street Journal. Presented by the ‘American College of Medical Informatimusicology,’ the 4-minute masterpiece aims to enlighten the ‘Acronymically Impaired.’ The little ditty gives us a lightening-fast tutorial on terms like: meaningful user, interoperability, stimulus, AHIC, HITSP … and for those of us really in the dark—EHR and HIT. “It was definitely a midnight to two in the morning kind of thing,” Dr.…

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