Author: trident500
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Providing commodities not always best solution in food security crises
In a New York Times “Opinionator” piece, journalist Tina Rosenberg examines the Obama administration’s proposed changes to the U.S. food aid program, which would provide more flexibility to allow for cash purchases of food locally or from U.S. farmers, as well as end monetization.
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USAID report highlights need for better water management in agriculture
“With its recently released Water and Development Strategy, USAID highlights some practical and potentially powerful initiatives both to improve health by expanding access to clean water and sanitation and to improve food security through better water management in agriculture,” Isobel Coleman, a senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy and director of the Civil Society, Markets,…
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N.Y. suspends adult day care enrollment over fraud concerns; Texas lawmakers push action on Medicaid fraud
Fraud concerns in New York and Texas are sparking changes to health care programs: New York officials have suspended enrollment in an adult day care program, and lawmakers in Texas plan action on Medicaid fraud.
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Medicaid expansion challenges: Which states are facing roadblocks, running out of time?
Twenty states and the District of Columbia have agreed to expand their Medicaid programs, to cover everyone under 133 percent of the federal poverty line. That leaves 30 states that haven’t, although Avalere categorizes four states as leaning in that direction (Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida and New York). Some of these states have especially large uninsured…
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EMR Research, EMR Blogging, and EMR Whitepapers
#his2013 Overhage: EMR deployment success is also creating a problem as we deploy Commerial products – more difficult to experiment/research — Ross D. Martin (@RossMartin) April 26, 2013 This is an interesting observation. I see what Ross means when it comes to experimentation. Meaningful use and the rest of the government regulations are sucking the…
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ONC’s Judy Murphy and the Future of Informatics at the Mid-Atlantic Healthcare Informatics Symposium
Judy Murphy, R.N., deputy national coordinator for programs and policy at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, said criticisms of the EHR incentive program because it hasn’t yet led to widespread interoperability are misguided. Interoperability “is going to be a progression, a journey,” she said
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Rate change: CMS payment schedule proposal already drawing fire
While the CMS’ proposed payment schedule for 2014 includes small increases in Medicare payments for the nation’s acute- and long-term care hospitals, it would change reimbursement for facilities serving high numbers of the uninsured in a way that is…
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Lawmakers urged to ease HIPAA limits for parents
It is a tragic, terrifying, heart- and gut-wrenching experience for a parent to watch helplessly as the child they’ve raised from infancy spirals out of control as a young adult, caught in the whirlpool of drug or alcohol addiction or mental illness.
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University of Michigan Health System Expands ACO
A partnership designed to improve care for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in southeast Michigan, while making the best use of Medicare dollars, has expanded. A partnership designed to improve care for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in southeast Michigan, while making the best use of Medicare dollars, has expanded. Two new medical practices have joined the 1,700 doctors…
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OCR: Healthcare organizations unaware of privacy regulations
Recent HIPAA audits of provider and payer organizations conducted by contractor KPMG on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services determined that many in the industry don’t know which privacy regulations apply to them. read more