National Initiative: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) authorizes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide reimbursement incentives for eligible professionals and hospitals who are successful in becoming “meaningful users” of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology. The Medicare EHR incentive program will provide incentive payments to eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs) that are meaningful users of certified EHR technology. The Medicaid EHR incentive program will provide incentive payments to eligible professionals and hospitals for efforts to adopt, implement, or upgrade certified EHR technology or for meaningful use in the first year of their participation in the program and for demonstrating meaningful use during each of five subsequent years.
Statewide Initiative- As part of California HealthCare Foundation’s statewide initiative to prepare California’s community health centers for meaningful use of electronic health records (http://www.chcf.org/topics/view.cfm?itemID=133784), the Health Alliance of Northern California (HANC) is the host consortium for the northern California learning community, collaborating with the Alliance for Rural Community Health (ARCH), and the North Coast Clinics Network (NCCN).
