Healthcare IT News June 2, 2017
When the Department of Justice and Office of the Inspector General find one vendor out of compliance, it’s only natural that they widen the scope to look at others in the same sector. Here’s what hospitals need to know now.
Are EHR vendors the new villains of healthcare?
A major electronic health record software player, eClinicalWorks, just got busted for falsely obtaining certification with the meaningful use criteria through its EHR — and suggestions immediately arose that the case was a shot-across-the-bow for the entire electronic health records industry.
“The DOJ is sending a message here. They imposed personal liability on the CEO and people who were orchestrating the alleged fraud and they went after a couple programmers,” said Robert...