Most of us believe that the push towards Electronic Health Records (EHR’s) is a good thing and a necessary step along the road toward making each person’s EHR available for any healthcare provider who might need to treat that patient,…
ONC is the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. The Office of the National Coordinator operates within the Office of the Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). ONC’s primary focus is the…
A CAH is a critical access hospital. A CAH is a hospital that is certified to receive cost-based reimbursement from Medicare. The reimbursement that CAHs receive is intended to improve their financial performance in order to reduce hospital closures. Each…
