EMR fines test Trump administration's opposition to bureaucracy

• Main Author: Robbins RA
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Arizona Thoracic Society 2017-06-01
• Series: Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care
• Subjects: EMR; EHR; electronic health care record; electronic medical record; audit; HHS; Health and Human Services; Tom Price; Trump; bureaucracy
• Online Access: http://www.swjpcc.com/editorial/2017/6/17/emr-fines-test-trump-administrations-opposition-to-bureaucra.html

No abstract available. Article truncated at 150 words. Earlier this week the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) released an audit report on $6.1 billion paid to 250,000 clinicians in the incentive program for meaningful use of electronic medical records (EMRs) (1). A random sample of 100 clinicians who had received at least one incentive payment revealed that 14 of them who had had not met all meaningful use requirements as they had attested (Table 1) (1,2). Table 1. Meaningful use deficiencies identified in 14 of 100 clinicians. • Six clinicians couldn't provide a mandatory analysis of security risks; • Four clinicians couldn't prove that they had generated at least one list of patients-another requirement -who had the same condition; • Three clinicians could not provide patient encounter data to document that they had met various meaningful use measures; • One clinician had 90-days' worth of patient encounter data when a year's worth was needed; • One clinician did not …