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CMS is announcing its intent to reopen the submission period for hardship exception applications for eligible professionals and eligible hospitals to avoid the 2015 Medicare payment adjustments for not demonstrating meaningful use of Certified Electronic Health Record Technology (CEHRT). The new deadline will be 11:59 PM EST November 30, 2014.

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bmdubu, your "more info link" went no where. The same with the cms.gov link.

Thanks

Not sure why that is. The links work fine for me.

http://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-...centivePrograms/PaymentAdj_Hardship.html

http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality...uments/QualityImprovementOrgs/index.html

Thanks for the info.
But I don't feel like a "hardship case." I think the whole exercise is fatally flawed, has no use in the real world of office practice, and should be abandoned.
We should be able to use EMR, paper, fax, UpDox, telephone, and even, (gasp!) talking to people in person -- whatever is appropriate to the situation, and whatever technology is currently working.

Requiring that all medical communication be channeled through a single EMR is just silly on the face of it.