Accountable Care Organizations: A Look at the Proposed Rule

Initiated as a potential solution to the burgeoning expense and fragmented delivery of health care in the U.S., ACOs will require effective implementation of health information technology to be successful.

Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: April 15, 2011

Process for Meaningful Use Payments Begins The wait is over for physicians who have gone through the process of becoming meaningful users of EMRs. Starting April 18, physicians can show CMS that they have met the requirements for Medicare incentive payments.   CIOs Less Confident on Early Meaningful-Use Targets Results from the most recent CHIME [...]

How to Train a Dragon: A Nephrologist’s Experience with Voice Recognition Software

Guest blogger, Peter Manring, MD, explains how he effectively uses Dragon NaturallySpeaking in his practice and how you can get the most out of it.