Technology and Dialysis Care: The Physician Quality Reporting Incentive program and 'meaningful use'

Technology and Dialysis Care: The Physician Quality Reporting Incentive program and 'meaningful use' (a series)

In 2011, Nephrology News & Issues published a four-part series on technology and dialysis care by Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA

Part 1, September 2011

Health information technology: Driving adoption
The past two years in the electronic health record market have been a frothy churn of change, as vendors and providers grapple with the complexities of “meaningful use.”

Part 2, October 2011

Electronic prescribing by the numbers

Over the past few years, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has introduced two programs that encourage the use of electronic prescribing (eRx).

Part 3, November 2011

PQRI: Looking back, looking forward Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA

I know it is hard to believe, but 2011 is the fifth year the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services‘ Physician Quality Reporting program has been in existence.

Part 4, Dec. 2011

Meaningful Use: Where do we go from here?

During the past couple of years, I have spent a substantial amount of time exploring the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Electronic Health Records Incentive Program and its intersection with nephrology.