Tag: ehr
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California to Launch Immunization-Messaging Portal in August
In August 2013, the California Department of Public Health will launch an immunization-messaging portal that it says will help providers qualify for meaningful use incentive payments. To qualify for meaningful use payments, immunization information will need to be submitted in HL7 format from a certified EHR. In August 2013, the California Department of Public Health…
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Legislators: Expand EHR anti-kickback safe harbors
In a recent letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, House legislators call for the expansion of the physician self-referral law exception and anti-kickback statute safe harbor for electronic health records. read more From: http://www.fierceemr.com/story/legislators-expand-ehr-anti-kickback-safe-harbors/2013-07-19?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss
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Adventist Health System CISO: Cut med device security red tape
Federal regulators should set some “minimal necessary” security protections for medical devices, but too much regulation could hamper vendors' efforts to improve them, according to Sharon Finney, data security leader at Adventist Health System. read more From: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/adventist-health-system-ciso-cut-med-device-security-red-tape/2013-07-19?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss
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‘Minimal necessary’ security standards make sense for med devices
Federal regulators should set some “minimal necessary” security protections for medical devices, but too much regulation could hamper vendors' efforts to improve them, according to Sharon Finney, data security leader at Adventist Health System. read more From: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/minimal-necessary-security-standards-make-sense-med-devices/2013-07-19?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss
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Study: Popular Mobile Health Apps Carry Considerable Privacy Risks
Many of the most popular mobile health and fitness apps (both free and paid) carry considerable privacy risks for users—and that the privacy policies for those apps that have policies do not describe those risks, according to a new study from the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. Many of the most popular mobile health and fitness apps…
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CMS apps aim at transparency for payments, financial transactions
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have introduced mobile apps to help physicians and the healthcare industry to track payments and other financial transfers, according to an… read more From: http://www.fiercemobilehealthcare.com/story/cms-apps-aim-transparency-payments-financial-transactions/2013-07-19?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss
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EHRA, AEPC release joint consensus statement on treatment of paediatric arrhythmias
A joint consensus statement on the treatment of paediatric arrhythmias has been released by the European Heart Rhythm Association of the European Society of Cardiology and the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology. …read more Source: EHRA, AEPC release joint consensus statement on treatment of paediatric arrhythmias
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Michigan Senate leader says Medicaid expansion vote could come in August
Republican Randy Richardville says the debate will have to wait until a group of senators studying the issue submit their proposal. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130719/Michigan-Senate-leader-says-Medicaid-expansion-vote-could-come-in-August.aspx
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Travel Nursing Offers One Travel Nurse “The World To Gain” Through American Mobile Healthcare
http://bit.ly/AmericanMobileHealthcare Kathleen is a traveling nurse who includes her family of five (5) as she travels the country to pursue travel nursing …
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House votes to delay health law’s mandates
Despite White House veto threats, House lawmakers on Wednesday OK’d two separate bills amending portions of the Affordable Care Act, the latest GOP moves to try to scuttle the health law. A measure putting off the employer mandate was approved 264-161 while a bill delaying the individual mandate passed 251-174. …read more Source: House votes…