Tag: News
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e-Health News Show- Introduction to Operating Rules
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Office of E-Health Standards and Services (OESS), Administrative Simplification Group (ASG) provides view… An overview of the ABCD’s of Medicare series. An irreverent look at what you need to know about Medicare. Video Rating: 0 / 5
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Gamification Weekly News “Mango Health Launches Gamified Health Apps”
For more Gamification news: MyEnGaming.com We all know that a multivitamin does the body good but, let’s be honest, who really remembers to take one every da… Video Rating: 0 / 5
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Florida House rejects federal Medicaid expansion funds
The Florida House of Representatives passed its own limited health care bill that relies on state money to expand coverage to the state’s neediest residents. Also in the news, reports from Ohio, Montana, Texas, Nebraska and Arizona on the status of state decision-making regarding the expansion.
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EHR and HIT News for April 25th
Today’s EHR and HIT news includes several new product announcements from OmniMD as well as customer acquisition news from MedAptus . In other news ZyDoc , a New York-based medical informatics company, announced that its Clinical Data Repository application has been selected as a finalist in the Sanofi 2013 Data Design Diabetes Innovation Challenge OmniMD…
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News 4/19/13
Top News Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says his office has taken direct control of the DoD-VA EHR integration project as he acknowledges to a House subcommittee that “we’re way behind.” Hagel told the committee that he has personally blocked the DoD’s EHR request for proposal because “I didn’t think we knew what the hell we…
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Moody’s: Sequestration adds on new financial pressures for non-profit hospitals
Also in the news, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has begun auditing some of the physicians who qualify for a Medicare EHR “meaningful use” bonus before they even receive a check — a step that has triggered grumbling from organized medicine.
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Some GOP governors see block grant opportunity in Medicaid expansion
Politico reports that some conservatives who have long sought to convert Medicaid into a block grant program see an opening with the health law to move in this direction. Also in the news, states continue to mull how to proceed with this provision of the law.
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Burden of care for many immigrants untouched by health law’s Medicaid expansion
Also in the news, media outlets offer news and analysis regarding Medicaid expansion plans and debates in Florida, Pennsylvania and Missouri.
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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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Monday Morning Update 3/18/13
From E2M : “Re: enterprise to mobile. To make CPOE, portal, or other EHR component mobile, you either build it from scratch or build a new set of apps on top of the existing infrastructure. Capriza allows anyone without any programming skill to transfer an existing Web-based enterprise app to mobile in minutes.” Maybe someone…