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EHR and HIT News for April 17th
Today’s EHR and HIT news includes two partnership items, the first from Health Solutions Plus and Context4 Healthcare allowing shared customers to streamline processes and the second from Creative Computing Solutions , and Socrata who have announced a strategic partnership that they claim will help federal agencies leverage data to make informed mission and program…
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Hagel on iEHR: ‘I didn’t think we knew what the hell we were doing’
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Tuesday that lack of understanding regarding the creation of a joint electronic health record system with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs led him to block DoD from issuing a request for proposals last month.
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The April HIT Standards Committee
The April HIT Standards Committee focused on refining the work plan for 2013, ensuring that standards work is appropriately divided among SDOs, S&I initiatives, and HITSC committee workgroups. Doug Fridsma presented ONC’s recommended next steps, based on the feedback from the HITSC Workgroup chairs. In an hour long briefing call two weeks ago, the HISTC…
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The Most Often Selected EHR Menu Meaningful Use Objectives
EHR Provider Sevocity has analyzed the December 2012 CMS report EP Recipients of Medicare EHR Incentive Program Payments to determine which Menu Objectives were most often selected by providers attesting to Meaningful Use under the Medicare EHR Incentive Program. To qualify for an EHR incentive payment under the program, eligible providers must attest to 15…
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Rule on home health care workers causing rift between Medicaid directors, labor advocates
Directors of state Medicaid programs and disability rights groups are warring with labor advocates over a long-awaited federal regulation that would extend federal minimum wage and overtime pay to in-home health care workers.
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Feds issue updated protocol on fraud self-disclosure
Federal officials are acknowledging for the first time in writing that healthcare firms that self-disclose certain types of Medicare fraud will likely only have to pay one-and-a-half times the amount of money involved.
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Morning Headlines 4/17/13
GOP senators raise concerns with push for electronic medical records Six Republican senators criticize HITECH, saying that EMRs are increasing healthcare spending, that the government lacks a sound interoperability plan, and that the adminsitration is more interested in pushing money out the door than achieving specific goals.
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Study: Hospitals Focused on Spending on Health IT, Joining ACOs
Sixty percent of U.S. hospital executives expect bigger budgets in 2013, with the highest level of spending dedicated to IT, according to a study from global management consulting firm L.E.K. Consulting, which als…
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Lawmakers call for ‘reboot’ of Meaningful Use program
Six Republican Senators have formally requested that U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius provide a written plan to address how the agency is implementing the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. read more
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New study protocol will create EHR patient safety guides
Researchers have launched a project to develop new tools to reduce patient safety risks associated with electronic health records, according to a new article published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making . read more