Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: September 30, 2011

CMS Issues Reminders About Meaningful Use Program Deadlines The end is near! CMS is reminding health care providers about upcoming deadlines for attesting to meaningful use of electronic health records.   IT Executives Reject Meaningful Use Metadata Standards The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has rejected the idea that metadata standards be included [...]

Pay 4 Reporting Update

I had the opportunity last week to speak about meaningful use and pay for reporting at the FMC Medical Directors meeting in Dallas. I thought this week I would provide a quick update related to a couple of these areas.   E-prescribing During last week’s PQRS Registry call with CMS we learned that the 2010 [...]

RPA’s Public Policy in a Minute :: September 2011

  Renal Physicians Association Public Policy in a Minute for September, with Rob Blaser, Director of Public Policy.