Healthcare Industry gears up to meet the EHR Audits in the New Year

The HER audits are around the corner. The Centres for Medicare & Medicaid Services, to encourage healthcare providers to adopt electronic health record systems and ensure secure data sharing practices, brought forth the EHR incentive program. Even as the meaningful use incentive program was intended to encourage healthcare industry adopt digitalization of data, these providers…

False Attestation to Meaningful Use by Texas Hospital

While the meaningful use incentive program is intended to encourage healthcare providers to adopt electronic health record systems and to ensure secure data sharing practices, it looks like some providers may have found loopholes to obtaining incentives without actually fulfilling requirements. Shelby Regional Medical Centre in Texas has come under the scanner for making false…