Dingell Grills HHS/CMS Officials On HIT Bonus Payments, AMA Registers Concerns

The author of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) grilled HHS officials about the law’s implementation at a lengthy hearing Tuesday on Capitol Hill, focusing on the aggressive time line set out in the rule to certify electronic health records systems (EHR) and urging HHS to set up the accreditation [...]

Ways and Means Members Challenge Administration Officials on Health IT

When federal officials released final rules on July 13 governing how medical providers should use electronic records, they scaled back some requirements in an earlier proposal. They said they wanted to strike a balance and create goals that were ambitious but also realistic.
But some House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Republicans made it clear in [...]