Electronic Health Records Under the HITECH Act
Navigating New Meaningful Use and Certification Standards to Qualify for Medicare and Medicaid Funding
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will prepare counsel for healthcare providers to qualify for EHR incentive payments under the requirements of the new CMS and ONC rules. The panel will outline best practices to navigate the rules to obtain funding.
Outline
- Meaningful use criteria
- Core criteria/objectives
- Menu criteria/objectives
- Reporting clinical quality measures
- EHR technology certification
- Standards
- Specifications criteria
- Certification criteria
- Best practices to navigate the rules and qualify for the incentives payments program
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key questions:
- What are the core and non-core criteria set forth for hospitals and eligible professionals to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid incentives?
- What are the technology certification standards for electronic health records?
- What strategies should healthcare providers employ to qualify for the incentive payment program for EHR technology?
Faculty
Jeffrey W. Mittleman
Partner
Holland & Knight
He practices in the area of health, regulatory and corporate law. He advises clients in fraud and abuse defense, the... | Read More
He practices in the area of health, regulatory and corporate law. He advises clients in fraud and abuse defense, the structuring of compliance and ethics programs, Medicare, Medicaid, ERISA, HIPAA, licensing, state insurance and managed care law. He also has significant experience in advising health plans with drafting of plan documents, ASO contracting and other regulatory issues.
CloseJoseph E. Lynch
Partner
King & Spalding
He represents healthcare providers in structuring, negotiating and implementing a broad range of clinical and... | Read More
He represents healthcare providers in structuring, negotiating and implementing a broad range of clinical and administrative transactions. He has both transactional expertise and extensive regulatory knowledge.
CloseJeffrey T. Ganiban
Partner
Drinker Biddle & Reath
He has experience regarding electronic medical record systems, clinical information systems, financial systems, claim... | Read More
He has experience regarding electronic medical record systems, clinical information systems, financial systems, claim processing and payment systems and multi-modality purchase and service agreements for diagnostic and biomedical equipment. He represents health systems, HMOs and integrated delivery networks in technology, information system and capital equipment procurement and contracting.
CloseRene Y. Quashie
Attorney
Drinker Biddle & Reath
He focuses his practice on federal regulatory and administrative health care matters, including Medicare and Medicaid,... | Read More
He focuses his practice on federal regulatory and administrative health care matters, including Medicare and Medicaid, privacy and security, general compliance, clinical research, FDA issues and product liability tort litigation.
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