Corepoint offers a new iteration of its Integration Engine in the same week that Caradigm aligned with Orion to bolsters its health information exchange roster.
This week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that health care providers who partnered with a REC were more than twice as likely to receive an incentive payment under the Medicare EHR Incentive Program. This data supports the success that CalHIPSO, the country's largest regional extension center, is seeing through its work in California.
At a time when many healthcare providers are poring through ONC’s MU Stage 2 proposal to see what lies ahead, the country’s largest Regional Extension Center (REC) is looking back at what it’s accomplished since it was founded just two years ago.
We have long believed that, regardless of how much policymakers encourage and guide, much of the future of EHRs will be determined by the extent to which patients embrace them.