Author: trident500
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First Edition: May 2, 2013
Today’s headlines include reports about a new study detailing how expanded Medicaid access impacts beneficiaries’ utilization of health care services and their overall physical health.
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NY health care advocates: Medicaid managed care shuns the most disabled users
Managed-care companies in New York have come under fire for signing up vigorous older adults referred to them by social day care centers, customers whose health needs are relatively small. But on Tuesday, legal advocates for the disabled told the state’s Medicaid director that the most seriously impaired people were getting the opposite treatment (Bernstein,…
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CMS seeks 1.4% payment hike for SNFs
The CMS has proposed a 1.4% hike in Medicare payments to skilled-nursing facilities for fiscal 2014, which the agency estimates would increase payments to these providers by about $500 million from 2013 payment levels.
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Readers Write: Are Hospital EHR Vendors Primarily Software or Services Companies?
Are Hospital EHR Vendors Primarily Software or Services Companies? By Kyle Samani Hospital EHR vendors are not primarily software companies with professional services divisions
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Mount Sinai Links Genetics with EMR
New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center has announced that 25,000 people have signed on to participate in its biobank program, BioMe, where each patient has broadly consented to DNA sequencing, contact from researchers, and longitudinal studies related to data embedded in the electronic medical record (EMR).
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Low interest rates hitting healthcare systems’ pension plans: S&P
Not-for-profit healthcare systems continued to struggle with underfunded pension liabilities last year, and the situation has become even more challenging since 2011.
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Health info of transgender patients warrants ‘special attention’
Clinicians who deal with the unique needs of transgender patients should use electronic health records differently than they do for non-transgendered patients, according to a recent perspective piece by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) EHR Workgroup published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association . read more
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EHR and HIT News for May Day
Did you know that the earliest May Day celebrations date back to the pre-Christian times, with the festival of Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers, and the Walpurgis Night celebrations of the Germanic countries. Well I didn’t, but if Wikipedia says it then it must be true, right? If you’re interested the full article is…
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Nearly half of EPs have received EHR payments
More than a quarter million physicians and other professionals eligible for the federally funded electronic health-record incentive payment programs have received payments, according to the latest government data.
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Continuous Inspiration, Training, and Improvement
Today, I’m about ready to embark on a fun experience. No, I’m not heading to TEDMED or HIMSS or some other conference chalk full of inspiration, training, and improvement