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EHRs help cut Medicaid costs, study says (Healthcare IT News). Tracking Medicaid beneficiaries who frequently use emergency departments and adopting electronic tracking systems to exchange patient information is among one of the ways states can cut Medicaid. Read more: EHRs help cut Medicaid costs study says Healthcare IT News

AHRQ seeks nominees for workgroups (Healthcare IT News). The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is now taking nominations for two workgroups focused on developing quality indicators, according to Monday’s Federal Register. Read more: AHRQ seeks nominees for workgroups Healthcare IT News

UCLA To Participate As A Medicare Shared Savings Program ACO. News RSS

HSMN Announces Its Revenue Cycle Management Reorganization Plan: RCM2. News RSS

El Camino Hospital Partners With Health Care DataWorks For Enterprise Data Warehouse And Healthcare Analytics. News

New ONC-Sponsored Research Advances Health Information Exchange.

NIST Seeks Participants for Cybersecurity Demonstration Project. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published an announcement in the Federal Register inviting interested organizations (e.g., vendors, academia, and integrators) to participate in a new demonstration project focusing on cybersecurity. The demonstration project is part of NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) Secure Exchange…

ONC Announces Next Stage of Blue Button. ONC has revealed its next step in Blue Button—Blue Button+. According to a presentation given by ONC, Blue Button+ goes further than traditional blue button functions to allow patients increased access to their health information. ONC has stated that developers will be able to expect health data in…

House Debt Ceiling Legislation Passes. HR 325, the “No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013” has been passed by the House of Representatives.  It is expected to pass the Senate, and the President has said he will sign it.  Sponsored by Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI), Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, the bill,…

House Committee Looking at Permanent “Doc Fix” for 2013. Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), Chair of the Health Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee told Politico this week that Ways and Means Chair Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) is “determined” to solve the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) problem, and Brady expects to put together a…