Interesting article published in
Psychiatric News earlier this year.
In December 2009 federal health regulators in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed regulations to implement the $19 billion physician and hospital reimbursement program created under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (PL 111-5). The law provides “incentive payments” of up to $44,000 over five years to physicians who show “meaningful use” of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology (Psychiatric News, March 20, 2009).
The proposed CMS regulations list 25 areas of data that physicians must collect from their patients and record in the EHR systems to show meaningful use of them and thereby qualify for the federal funds.
However, psychiatrists who reviewed the proposed regulations are concerned that they require physicians to collect patient data focused on primary care treatment and not necessarily mental health care, such as charting changes in a range of vital signs.
Read the full article
here
1 comments:
An electronic health record (EHR) (also electronic patient record or computerised patient record) is an evolving concept defined as a systematic collection of electronic health information about individual patients or populations. Thank you so much for your wealth of information,keep posting.
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