Registration for Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs

• HHS Press Release: Surveys Show Significant Proportions of Hospitals and Doctors Already Plan to Adopt Electronic Health Records and Qualify for Federal Incentive Payments
• Recent Survey Findings: Important Facts about EHR Adoption and the EHR Incentive Programs [PDF – 101 KB]
• Updates from Dr. Blumenthal: EHR Adoption Set to Soar, Jan. 13, 2011
• Updates from Dr. Blumenthal: Registration for EHR Incentive Programs Starts Jan. 3, 2011
• CMS Press Release: EHR Incentive Programs Registration Starts Jan 3, 2011
• Health IT Buzz Blog: ONC/CMS Meaningful Use Resources
• Fact Sheet: Becoming a Meaningful User of EHRs [PDF – 239 KB]
• Fact Sheet: Federal Resources to Help Rural Providers Achieve Meaningful Use [PDF –243 KB]
• Overview: Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs
• Path to Payment: Steps to Take to Receive Incentive Payments
• Flow Chart: Determine Eligibility for EHR Incentive Programs [PDF – 617 KB]
• Registration Website: CMS EHR Incentive Programs
• How to Register: Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs
• Specification Sheets: Meaningful Use [PDF – 2.11 MB]
• Milestone Timeline: EHR Incentive Programs [PDF – 422 KB]
• Educational Materials: EHR Incentive Programs
• Fact Sheet: Final Regulations Defining Meaningful Use and Setting Standards for EHR Incentive Programs
• Fact Sheet: Medicaid EHR Incentive Program
• Fact Sheet: Medicare EHR Incentive Program
• Dr. Blumenthal Video: Registration Process Now Open
• CMS Video: Basics - EHR Incentive Programs
• Tip Sheet: Medicare Hospitals [PDF – 517 KB]
• Tip Sheet: Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) [PDF – 473 KB]
• Tip Sheet: Medicaid Hospitals [PDF – 405 KB]

Talking to Your Patients about EHRs

• Brochure: What Patients Need to Know about EHRs [PDF – 551 KB]
• Talking to Your Patients about EHRs [PDF – 179 KB]
• Fact Sheet: About PHRS [PDF – 901 KB]
• Fact Sheet: Advancing the Future of Health Care with EHRs: A Look at ONC's HITECH Programs [PDF – 233 KB]

Benefits of EHRs

• Get the Facts About Using EHRs to Improve Health Care in Your Practice and Community [PDF – 274 KB]
• Electronic Health Records: Advancing America’s Health Care [PDF – 271 KB]

Meaningful Use Final Rule

• Comments Sought on Potential Stage 2 Meaningful Use Objectives [PDF – 187 KB] - Proposed Meaningful Use Objectives and Measures for Stages 2 and 3 are now available. View the Federal Register notice [PDF – 13 KB]
• Final Rule: Meaningful Use [PDF – 13.9 MB] [text]
• HHS Press Release: Meaningful Use Final Rule
• Watch the Press Conference: Meaningful Use Final Rule
• Press Conference: Secretary Sebelius' Remarks
• Fact Sheet: Electronic Health Records At-a-Glance

• Fact Sheet: Meaningful User of Certified Electronic Health Records (EHR) Technology
• Frequently Asked Questions: CMS/Meaningful Use
• Updates from Dr. Blumenthal: Investing in the Future of Health Care with Electronic Health Records
• Presentation: Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs [PDF – 13.9 MB]
• Reference Grids for Meaningful Use or Standards and Certification Criteria Final Rules

 Standards and Certification Final Rule

• Final Rule: Standards & Certification [PDF – 390 KB] [text]
• Fact Sheet: Standards and Certification Criteria
• Frequently Asked Questions: Standards and Certification Criteria

Privacy and Security

• Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM): Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy, Security and Enforcement Rules [PDF – 338 KB]
• Joint OCR-ONC Statement: Building Trust in Health Information Exchange
• Office for Civil Rights
• Privacy and Security in Health Information Technology

Publications

• The "Meaningful Use" Regulation for Electronic Health Records
  by Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
  
• Finding My Way to Electronic Health Records
  by Surgeon General, Vice Admiral Regina M. Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A.