Author: trident500
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Hospitals, Representative Ask For Extension of EMR “Safe Harbor”
Right now, it’s legal for hospitals to give doctors EMRs under certain circumstances, despite the existence of the Stark law banning payments intended to induce referrals. Specifically, hospitals won’t face anti-kickback enforcement if doctors pay 15 percent of the cost of EMRs donated by hospitals. But the Stark law exception established by CMS, plus a…
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First Edition: April 3, 2013
Today’s headlines include reports about how the latest round of payment rates for private Medicare plans led to stock market gains for insurers.
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7 health technologies developed for veterans
Technology has always played a big part in providing and improving healthcare for U.S. soldiers, both at home and abroad. For instance, the Blue Button, launched in 2010 , initially was designed as a…
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EHRs must evolve as big data use grows
As big data use continues to increase in healthcare, electronic health records will need to evolve simultaneously, researchers from Northwestern University, Geisinger Health System and Mount Sinai School of Medicine write in a viewpoint recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. read more
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Roundup: Feds cut N.Y. Medicaid payments $1.2B; 93,000 fewer kids enroll in CHIP in Pa.; W. Va. lawmakers promise miners benefits
Federal authorities have dramatically lowered the amount that New York state can claim from the federal government for certain medical services, costing the state an estimated $1.2 billion.
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Indiana House committee approves alternative option for Medicaid expansion
The legislation would use the state’s Healthy Indiana Plan to add coverage for 400,000 low-income residents.
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Policy Committee to Hear Proposals on Stage 3 MU Consolidation, ‘Deeming’
The April 3 Health IT Policy Committee meeting promises to be interesting. The committee will hear presentations from two subgroups of the meaningful use workgroup, one dealing with the potential consolidation of meaningful use measures for Stage 3 and the other with the concept of “deeming” for eligible hospitals. The April 3 Health IT Policy…
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Rural Hospital EHR
As I mentioned in my previous post on EHR Penalties and Meaningful Use Failure , I had a really good discussion with Stoltenberg Consulting about rural hospital EHR at HIMSS this year. While Stoltenberg no doubt works with hospital systems of every size, I could tell that they had a real affection for the rural…
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Proposed Bill Lightens Meaningful Use Load
A recent bill introduced to the House of Representatives by Rep.
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EHR and HIT News for April 2nd
Today’s EHR and HIT news includes an update from GZS , who is annoucing the release of an EHR patient registry solution under the brand name HamaGlobal. There is news from Honeywell HomMed on a new program designed to support healthcare providers as they implement, market and grow their telehealth programs.