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The 2025 DirectTrust Annual Conference
2025-08-04 - 2025-08-07    
12:00 am
Three of the most interesting healthcare topics are going to be featured at the DirectTrust Annual conference this year: Interoperability, Identity, and Cybersecurity. These are [...]
ALS Nexus Event Recap and Overview
2025-08-11 - 2025-08-14    
12:00 am
International Conference on Wearable Medical Devices and Sensors
2025-08-12    
12:00 am
Conference Details: International Conference on Wearable Medical Devices and Sensors , on 12th Aug 2025 at New York, New York, USA . The key intention [...]
Epic UGM 2025
2025-08-18 - 2025-08-21    
12:00 am
The largest gathering of Epic Users at the Epic user conference in Verona. Generally highlighted by Epic’s keynote where she often makes big announcements about [...]
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Epic UGM 2025
18 Aug 25
Verona

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Nov 04: GAO Reports Jump In Medicare EHR Payments

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Medicare electronic health records (EHR) incentive payments to hospitals and health care professionals topped $6.3 billion for 2012 – more than twice the $2.3 billion awarded for 2011 — according to a GAO report entitled Electronic Health Records: Number and Characteristics of Providers Awarded Medicare Incentive Payments for 2011-2012. The proportion of eligible hospitals and professionals receiving payments also grew from 2011 to 2011, with 48% of eligible hospitals (2,291) receiving payments in 2012 compared to 777 hospitals (16%) in 2011.  For 2012, 31% of eligible professionals (183,712) were awarded payments, up from 10% (58,331) in 2011. Among hospitals and professionals awarded an incentive payment for 2012, the largest proportions were in the South, the smallest proportions were in the West, and a majority were in urban areas. More than four-fifths of the hospitals were acute care hospitals and three-fifths were nonprofit hospitals, while more than half of professionals were specialty practice physicians. source