Author: trident50
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APCER Pharma’s MD to teach global medical affairs strategy workshop at World Congress Summit
APCER Pharma, the truly global provider of outsourced services for clinical safety, pharmacovigilance, medical affairs, and regulatory operations, announced that the company’s Managing Director, Dr. Vineet Kacker, will be one of the leaders in a workshop on developing a successful global Medical Affairs strategy. …read more
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Eyeing presidential run, Rubio outlines Medicare plans
Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), considered a likely presidential candidate in 2016, on Tuesday called for structural changes to Social Security and Medicare as a way to control spending for both programs, which are growing steadily as the U.S. population ages. …read more
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Medicare fraud strike force strikes again, arresting 90 people
A federal task force on Tuesday charged 90 people, including 16 doctors, with generating $260 million of false Medicare billings following raids in cities across the country. …read more
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Can HIE Support Value-Based Care Under Federated Models of Data Governance?
0 When it comes to value-based care and population health management in the context of HIE, it turns out that federated HIE models with non-standardized data inputs simply don’t deliver when it comes to leveraging HIE for data analytics read more …read more
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Analysis: Medicaid enrollment grows even in states that refused to expand eligibility
Consultant Avalere Health found enrollment growth even in states that opted not to expand the health insurance program for the poor because of the so-called “woodwork effect.” …read more
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Kvedar: 3 Strategies, 3 Tactics to Make Healthcare “Addictive” on Connected Devices
In his keynote address at the iHT2 Health IT Summit in Boston, Joseph Kvedar, M.D. gave attendees an overlook of specific strategies and tactics that healthcare provider organizations can use to leverage the addictive nature of mobile devices. In his keynote address at the iHT2 Health IT Summit in Boston, Joseph Kvedar, M.D. gave attendees…
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2014 Up-and-Comer: Get Real Health
After their dotcom company crashed and burned, three entrepreneurs took their technology and expertise to make patient engagement and consumer health the focus of their new business. To accompany our Healthcare Informatics 100 list of the largest companies in health information technology, we like to give readers a heads-up on some fast-growing companies that could…
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Orthopedic Hospital CEO: Time for Health IT to Make Its Next Quantum Leap
A recent federally-funded JASON white paper said that large-scale interoperability amounts to little more than replacing fax machines with the electronic delivery of page-formatted medical records. One hospital CEO agrees, saying it’s time for the industry to become more interoperable. Is the current lack of interoperability among the data resources for electronic health records (EHRs)…
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Definition of ‘function’ differs among health IT stakeholders
Despite agreement from many attendees at a meeting Tuesday on proposed federal health IT regulations unveiled last month that such regulation should focus on functionality instead of platform, developing a singular definition for that functionality is proving to be a challenge, according to attorney Brad Thompson of Epstein Becker Green. read more …read more
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Seeking Your Feedback: Voluntary EHR Certification for Behavioral Health and Long-Term and Post-Acute Care Settings
The Health Information Technology Policy Committee (HITPC) has been asked by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to explore the health information technology (health IT) needs of the long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) and behavioral health (BH) settings. In most cases, providers in these settings are not eligible to receive…