Electronic Health Records and Meaningful Use

MGMA has resources for selecting, implementing and optimizing an electronic health record (EHR) in your medical practice or health system. Ensure you meet meaningful use requirements for EHR incentive payments, no matter your stage of EHR adoption. MGMA strongly encourages the adoption and use of EHRs to improve clinical performance and streamline administrative functions. See the latest legislative and regulatory information on EHR requirements.

Articles and blogs

Blog: Five 5010 questions to ask your vendor

Blog: Simplify your EHR implementation

Blog: EHRs: It's not about the technology; it's how you use it

MGMA e-Source article: Small, mid-sized practices get EHR help from IPAs 

MGMA Connexion article: Independents outpace larger systems with EHR use  

MGMA e-Source article: Implementing an EHR soon? Train, train, train! And then repeat 

MGMA Connexion article: Implementing EHR: A match made in heaven  

MGMA e-Source article: EHRs a critical part of better-performers' success 

FAQ: EHR incentive program 

MGMA Connexion article: When it comes to EHR, paperless practices can be green in more ways than one 

MGMA Washington Connexion article: Key healthcare provisions in the economic stimulus bill 

MGMA Connexion article:Economic stimulus package means landmark EHR incentives 

MGMA Connexion article: 4 levels of hospital-practice EHR interoperability 

MGMA e-Source article: EHR implementation in the age of bailouts

 MGMA DataDive: 2011 Electronic Health Records Module 

Achieve Meaningful Use

• Checklist for starting Meaningful Use
  
• Finding Meaning in Meaningful Use: How to Achieve it and Qualify for the Federal EHR Incentive Payments
  (on-demand Webinar/CD)
  
• Podcast: FAQs about meaningful use and EHRs
  
• MGMA consultants help practices struggling with EHR, meaningful use
  
• Understanding the ARRA EHR Incentives and Achieving Meaningful Use
  (on-demand Webinar)
  
• HITECH Act Resource Guide

Choose your stage of EHR adoption 

1. EHR Selection

Podcast: Top tips for selecting an EHR

Electronic Health Records: Transforming Your Medical Practice, 2nd Edition 

Electronic Health Records, 2nd Edition CD Toolkit

Keys to EMR/EHR Success: Selecting and Implementing an Electronic Medical Record, 2nd Edition

Selecting the Best EHR for your Medical Group
(on-demand Webinar)

MGMA consultants help with EHR selection

EHR Selector tool list

2. EHR Implementation

Podcast: All about EHR implementation

Technical and Financial Guide to EHR Implementation

On-demand Webinars:

• Implementing an EHR to Qualify for the ARRA Incentives and Improve Medical Group Performance
• Implementing and Optimizing Your EHR - Ensuring Efficiency and Earning Incentives 
• Find Meaning in Meaningful Use - How to Achieve it and Qualify for Federal EHR Incentive Payments

Technical and Financial Guide to EHR Implementation

Keys to EMR/EHR Success: Selecting and Implementing an Electronic Medical Record, 2nd Edition

Electronic Health Records: Transforming Your Medical Practice, 2nd Edition

Electronic Health Records, 2nd Edition CD Toolkit

MGMA consultants help with EHR implementation

3. EHR Optimization

Podcast: Essentials of EHR optimization

Clinical integration and EHRs: The convergence of compliance and business opportunity

Maintaining EMR security and confidentiality

Preventing data disasters

Quick tips for adding patient safety into your EMR

MGMA consultants help with EHR optimization

News and Advocacy

For more legislative information on:

Electronic Health Record (EHR)

Health Information Technology

Medicare Payment Policies