Author: trident50
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ONC interoperability plan draws tempered industry reaction
Reaction to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s 10-year interoperability plan has been mixed, with organizations calling for stronger language and greater detail but also praising this first step. read more …read more
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Politics continue to swirl around state Medicaid expansion debates
A group of Democratic senators have written a letter to Republican governors in states such as South Dakota, Wyoming, Wisconsin and Nebraska urging that they set politics aside and pursue the health law’s expansion of the state-federal low-income insurance program. Meanwhile, the issue is also front and center in primary elections. …read more
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ATA, Others Lobby Burwell for Eased Telemedicine Restrictions
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and a number of healthcare IT organizations have sent a letter to new HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell, asking for her waive the regulatory restrictions on the use of telemedicine. The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and a number of healthcare IT organizations have sent a letter to new HHS Secretary…
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HHS identifies overpayments to Medicare advantage plans but doesn’t recover funds
Medicare auditors found the government overpaid the plans hundreds of millions of dollars but in 2013 opted to scrap such reviews, the Center for Public Integrity writes. Meanwhile, Modern Healthcare looks at Medicare’s difficult job in dealing with safety failures. …read more
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Technology to enable care transitions
Healthcare occurs on a continuum, from the moment a patient picks up a phone to make an appointment or goes to the emergency room to the time they are sent home with a diagnosis, prescriptions and treatment plan. It’s a lot of coordination that requires a lot of communication. To aid in that effort, innovative…
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Groups urge feds to reimburse ACOs for telehealth
Saying they want to improve care coordination, several organizations are calling on the federal government to reimburse accountable care organizations for the use of telehealth and remote patient monitoring technologies. read more …read more
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Washington Debrief: House Questions ONC’s Regulatory Ambitions
Congressional scrutiny of ONC’s authority may dampen the agency’s ambitions to regulate patient safety and develop certification programs apart from MU. However, ONC should be able to easily justify most – if not all – of its ongoing activities to critics through statutory language established by the HITECH Act. House Questions ONC’s Regulatory Ambitions Key…
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Why medical expertise is a must-have for mHealth tech development
When it comes to designing, developing and building new mobile healthcare tools, many of the most successful ventures typically have one factor in common: accredited healthcare expertise. read more …read more
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Five Guest Blog Posts On EHR and HIT Workflow, Usability, Safety, Interoperability and Population Health
John Lynn is taking a well-deserved week off to attend a family function. He asked if I was interested in five EHR workflow guest blog posts, a blog post a day this week, on EMR and HIPAA. Of course I said: YES! Here’s the outline for the week: Five Guest Blog Posts On EHR &…
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Connecting EMS, hospitals requires careful collaboration
Lack of interoperability with hospital systems and lack of federal funds continue to be obstacles for effective data-sharing between emergency crews and hospitals. read more …read more