Health IT: Deadline Looms For Medicare's EHR Demonstration Project

Article Overview

This article explains a CMS Electronic Health Records demonstration project designed to encourage adoption of EHRs in small- to medium-sized primary care practices that bill Medicare. It covers the program’s broad structure, the participating practice and community requirements, the timing of application and selection, and the general categories of performance and quality measurement used in the demonstration. It is relevant to medical practices, health IT stakeholders, and coding or compliance staff who need to understand the Medicare-related pilot at a high level.