This video contains useful information for the incentives to the EHR program.  Please click the link below to go to the website of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.  Before clicking on the website please be aware that there is a cheat sheet for the video below so you don't have to watch the entire video.

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 Cheat Sheet.  This list details all the minutes and the moderator's questions.

6:32 How can a doctor get EHR certified?

7:21  What is meaningful use?

8:37  How is meaningful use determined?

9:33  For the start of the program this is just stage 1.  Can you tell us a little more about this stage and what are the requirements?

11:24  Would you like to hear more about medicare EHR incentives?  Who can participate in medicare/medicaid and how is eligibility determined?

11:58  Definition of Medicaid/Medicare eligible professionals.

13:25  How much are the financial incentives?

14:13  Medicaid incentives.

14:40  When does the medicaid EHR program begin?

15:22  What if they are already participating in a CMS incentive program?  Can they also participate?

16:21  What does an eligible professional or hospital need to do to get started?

18:03  Are hospital based providers eligible?

18:26  What happens they don't want to participate?

18:52  Do eligible professionals and hospitals have to sign up right away or is there an end date?

20:06  Is there a minimum patient volume?

21:13  Would patients in children's health programs volume count?

21:36  Hospital based providers can't participate in Medicare, but can they participate in Medicaid?

22:00  Can eligible professionals participate in both?

22:33  Which hospitals are eligible?

23:34  What is the overall size of the financial incentive program for medicaid?

25:26  When do eligible professionals have to demonstrate meaningful use and how?

26:32  Will states have additional requirements?

27:35  How will states verify eligibility and disburse payments?

28:14  When does the program end?

29:19  If eligible professionals are looking for more information, where can they look?

The following applies to Indian Health Services, but I will mention this part is useful only because they have been electronic for 20 years.

31:00  What has IHS done?

32:50  How does your work relate to Medicaid?

37:00  Where would people go to get more information on IHS?