In July, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the much-anticipated final regulations that providers are required to meet in order to receive the Medicare incentives for adoption of a certified electronic health record system. In those regulations, In the final rule, CMS set forth 15 core elements which must be met in order to qualify for “meaningful use” of the EHR system.

Notwithstanding the regulations, the requirements are complex and many physicians and other providers have a host of questions regarding both the regulations and the incentive program. To address some of these questions, CMS has issued a number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on its website. To review the new EHR FAQs, physicians can click here and type the term “EHR” into the search window.