Electronic Health Record offers a number of opportunities for Hospitals, Clinics, Doctors and eligible Health care providers to earn meaningful incentives in the field of Medicare and Medicaid services.

1. EARNING INCENTIVES THROUGH EHR
Electronic Health Record offers a number of opportunities for Hospitals, Clinics,
Doctors and eligible Health care providers to earn meaningful incentives in the field of
Medicare and Medicaid services. By the use of certified EHR services, one can earn
significant incentives from various Medical departments which are administrated by the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). One can easily adopt EHR service
in their Clinics or Hospitals and can gain time , money and an added incentive for the
use of EHR. The U.S. Department of Health and Human services have presented various
resources in-order to help health care providers in adopting EHR services .The Center
for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS) provides payments up to $44,000 through
the Medicare EHR Incentive Program and up to $63,750 by the Medicaid EHR Incentive
Program for the adoption of EHR programs.
Need and How to qualify for Incentives
Today, the use of EHR services in United States of America is a widespread practice.
The U.S. Government produced a HITECH (Health Information Technology for
Economic and Clinical Health) act for supporting small scale healthcare providers and
Clinics to adopt Electronic Health Record system. The first stage of EHR is to adopt the
EHR service with an EHR Software which is registered and formulated by the
regulatory authorities and have to poses the certifications and standards issued by the
U.S. government . The second stage is the maintenance of EHR with the help of several
software applications which is to improve the efficiency , quality and safety and also
extending the benefits of EHR to the patients.
The incentive programs are introduced from 2010 onwards and it will not always be
available and are supposed to be a part of financial penalties which may effect by 2015.

2. On July 13 , 2012 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary
produced a criteria for adopting EHR with a set of rules. In order to qualify for
incentives, one have to register under the Center for Medicare and Medicaid services
(CMS) and have to satisfy the above rule with the basic requirements,and at last need a
decision support system for recording the patient data . These data will be evaluated
with various scales and is communicated with the EHR provider and also to the public.
The data present on the EHR service between providers and patients has to be secure
and has to maintain data confidentiality in operating.
THE AUTHOR
The HiArc is an EHR service provider which helps the practitioner for the usage of EHR
services through its fully-featured, multi-use system design . HiArc is the most powerful
and easy-to-use EHR on the market and is guaranteed to earn you Meaningful Use
incentives that optimizes the practitioners work flow.
HiArc Electronic Health Record software was developed by a team of experienced
software engineers and medical experts, creating a feature-rich, innovative system under
Spectrum Software Solutions Inc's. President of Spectrum, Frank Kunnumpurath says
“Health care providers can now leverage our software to not only make significant care
improvements but to also achieve meaningful use and qualify for incentive funds under
ARRA.” HiArc is the most powerful and innovative system which is an asset to medical
providers.