What does EHR stand for?

The national "meaningful use" guidelines have been developed to serve as a standard for effectively using electronic health records and to help facilitate more Medicare and Medicaid providers to join in the "digital" transformation of the health care system.

Department of Health & Human Services awarded CCHIT a three-year contract to develop and evaluate certification criteria and create an inspection process for HIT in three areas: ambulatory electronic health records for office-based physicians or providers, inpatient electronic health records for hospitals and health systems, and the network components through which ambulatory and inpatient providers interact and share information.

health insurance industry; the federal government recently proposed changes to its regulations that ultimately could make it less costly and easier for doctors to adopt electronic health records and electronic prescription technology.