Author: trident500
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Health law coverage expansion will help ex-felons
Stateline reports that the health law’s Medicaid expansion will make many newly released prison inmates eligible for coverage.
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Most Docs Don’t Believe in Full Patient Access to the EHR
A new survey conducted by Harris Interactive, supported by the Reston, Va.-based consulting firm suggests that even though most U.S. doctors (82 percent) would like patients to participate in their own healthcare by updating their electronic health record (EHR), they don’t support full patient access to the EHR
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ONC launches second MU challenge for states
HHS has launched a second year of a friendly competition between the states and U.S. territories to give them incentives to promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology among their citizens and organizations.
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The Many Roadblocks of Creating an ACO
Becoming an accountable care organization (ACO) can leave an organization in a much better place clinically and financially, and overall in-tune with innovative models of reimbursement. Yet while successfully mining this opportunity is a tremendous achievement, the path of becoming an ACO and changing the organizational structure is fraught with numerous challenges that can derail…
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Big data use could save $450 billion in healthcare costs
Big data could help U.S. citizens save as much as $450 billion in healthcare costs, but fundamental change is necessary to meeting such goals, according to a new analysis published this month by consulting firm McKinsey & Company
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ONC Officially Launches State Meaningful Use Challenge 2.0
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has officially launched the State Meaningful Use Acceleration Challenge 2.0, aiming to motivate every state to participate to help continue to improve care for all their patients. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has officially launched the State Meaningful…
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Barriers impede provider use, endorsement of PHRs
The low adoption rate of personal health records by consumers may be caused in part by problems that providers are having with the systems, according to a new study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research . read more
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EHR Certification News for the week ending April 5th
The certification of EHR systems is an ongoing process – as is the notification of those certifications. There were two such announcements this week. The first is from iChartsMD who announced certification of iChartsMD v5.2. iCharts also announced that they’ll be entering the already crowded hospital market for EHRs. The second certification announcement came from…
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First Edition: April 5, 2013
Today’s headlines include reports about how President Barack Obama’s budget proposal — to be released next week — will handle Medicare and Medicaid.
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Penn Medicine study finds lower utilization of CTC for cancer screening
In 2009, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services halted reimbursement for so-called “virtual colonoscopy” for routine colon-cancer screening in asymptomatic patients, in part due to concerns over how this procedure, computed tomography colonography, was being used in the elderly population.