Physicians can recover some of the cost of investing in certified electronic medical records if they can demonstrate meaningful use. The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has named testing bodies to certify Electronic Health Record’s (EHR) for compliance. To qualify for incentive payments up to $44,000 under the Medicare program and up to $63,750 under Medicaid, eligible professionals must adopt and demonstrate the meaningful use of certified EHR systems.

For more information about the ONC certification program visit: http://healthit.hhs.gov/certification.

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Adoption of standardized machine-readable health insurance cards will complement EHR. PDA is an official supporter of MGMA Project SwipeIT, an innovative movement that looks to cut wasteful spending on resubmitting claims, making copies of cards or manually entering client data by advancing the adoption of standardized machine-readable health insurance cards.