Author: trident500
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The EHR Debate Reaches a Boiling Point
Over the course of the past few months, the debate over EHRs and the meaningful use legislation has intensified, thanks to various mainstream media articles, reports, studies and surveys, and a backlash in some quarters—particularly among some physician end-users—against current EHR adoption.
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9 tips for getting started with big data
With big data promising enormous clinical and financial rewards for healthcare, but posing just as many technical and strategic challenges, the Institute for Health Technology Transformation (iHT2) has published a study mapping the way forward for prov…
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AHIMA: Medicare Recovery Audit Legislation is Needed
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has announced its support for the Medicare Audit Improvement Act of 2013, which it says would address critical data related operational problems to the Medicare Recovery Audit program. The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has announced its support for the Medicare Audit Improvement Act of 2013, which…
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Arkansas report finds little additional federal costs would result from state’s ‘private option’ for Medicaid expansion
The report, issued by the Arkansas Department of Human Services, found that the plan would add less than 15 percent to federal health care costs in the state.
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Feds ask firms about HIPAA audit experience
The top federal healthcare privacy and security regulator wants to know what officials from more than 100 organizations that have undergone privacy and security audits thought of the process and what can be done to improve it.
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Senators set to push for details on CMS Innovation Center
Senators will get their first chance Wednesday to press for operational details from the head of a fledgling CMS office with the power to drive wide-scale changes in Medicare and Medicaid.
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ACOs May Not Be Right for True Population Health, Researchers Say
Researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College say that in order to ‘formulate effective health care and social service policy’ a clear definition of the term ‘population health’ is needed. Accountable care organizations (ACOs), which they note is a key feature of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), may not clearly have “the incentives or the tools…
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Meaningful use can be stretch even for EHR pioneer
Vanderbilt University Medical Center was a pioneer in the use of health information technology and rolled out its homegrown StarPanel electronic health record back in 2001. But this early experience didn’t mean that meeting the meaningful-use…
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EHR and HIT News for March 19th
Today’s EHR and HIT News includes updates from new release information from Unibased Systems Architecture, an expanded customer deployment from Health Catalyst as well as an update from Merge Healthcare on the adoption of their image management and digital templating solution for orthopedics. Today’s news rounds out with a customer acquisition update from M*Modal .…
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University Of Colorado Hospital Joins CORHIO Health Information Exchange Network
CORHIO, the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization, announced today that University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) has signed an agreement to connect to its health information exchange. By connecting its Epic EHR system with CORHIO’s HIE, University Hospital is ensuring that its patients will receive more efficient follow-up care with their primary care doctors and any…