Author: trident50
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First Edition: May 16, 2014
Today’s headlines include reports about the Indiana governor’s alternative plan to expand Medicaid. Kaiser Health News staff writer Sarah Varney, working in collaboration with PBS Newshour, reports: “Men and women involved in the criminal justice system are more likely to be sicker than the general population, with higher rates of diabetes, hypertension, depression, mood disorders…
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Viewpoints: GOP attacks on health law; challenging assumptions about Obamacare politics; is employer mandate worth it?
A crucial component of the Republican Party’s assault on the Affordable Care Act always has been ignorance — that is, the promotion of ignorance about the ACA’s benefits among the general population. Now, from the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., comes hard evidence that the campaign worked, bigtime. In its latest national survey to determine…
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Lung cancer screening guidelines could cost Medicare billions
A study of Medicare beneficiaries with a history of heavy smoking found that new lung cancer screening guidelines would likely double the proportion of lung cancers found at an early stage, but at a steep cost of more than $9 billion over five years. …read more
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CHOP oncologist receives Lifetime Achievement Award at ANRA association’s international meeting
The Advances in Neuroblastoma Research Association (ANRA) is conferring its highest honor on pediatric oncologist Garrett M. Brodeur, M.D., of the Cancer Center at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). …read more
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KLAS Report: Epic to Non-Epic Data Sharing is Real, but Challenging
Providers using non-Epic clinical systems say that while it isn’t easy, they are able to share data with Epic, according to a recent report from the Orem, Utah-based KLAS. Providers using non-Epic clinical systems say that while it isn’t easy, they are able to share data with Epic, according to a recent report from the…
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News 5/16/14
Top News Medfusion files suit against Allscripts, claiming the company didn’t live up to its agreement to resell Medfusion’s patient portal to EHR customers of Allscripts. Medfusion says Allscripts owes it $5 million, with damages potentially tripling the lawsuit’s value. The lawsuit claims: The companies signed a five-year agreement valid through July 17, 2014. Allscripts…
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Morning Headlines 5/16/14
Medfusion sues Allscripts for breach of contract Medfusion files a breach of contract lawsuit against Allscripts because the company acquired and then began marketing a competing patient portal system while it still had an active contract to resell the Medfusion patient portal. Allscripts announced the acquisition at the start of HIMSS 2013, giving “virtually no…
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CMS Proposes Rule to Align Timelines in EHR Incentive and IQR Programs
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a rule this week that would align the reporting of clinical quality measures (CQMs) for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) under the Medicare EHR Incentive Program with timelines in the Hospital IQR Program. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed…
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Should clinical informatics become a new medical subspecialty?
As health information technology matures and becomes an integral part of all healthcare, more and more people will be needed who understand the field and can apply it to medicine. In an article published online this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, two physicians–Don Detmer of the University of Virginia and Edward…
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Decision support dangers: Who’s responsible?
Identifying high-risk clinical decision support systems is easy, but deciding to how make them safer and determining who is responsible for doing so is more difficult, according to attorney Brad Thompson of Epstein Becker Green. read more …read more