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  • Meaningful Use Stage 3 may require social, behavioral data capture

    Meaningful Use Stage 3 may require social, behavioral data capture

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    The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has provided another glimpse into what may be required in Stage 3 of Meaningful Use, issuing a solicitation for a contractor to make recommendations regarding which behavioral and social data should be added to the program. read more From: http://www.fierceemr.com/story/meaningful-use-stage-3-may-require-social-behavioral-data-capture/2013-09-25?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

  • Alliance Mobile Health – Final

    Alliance Mobile Health – Final

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    http://www.alliancemobilehealth.org/ 248.457.0344 Alliance Mobile Health located in Troy, MI. Alliance Mobile Health is accredited through the Commission on … Video Rating: 1 / 5 This is one of the 14 Mobile Health Clinics Save the Children has implemented in Haiti. Dr. Joachim Abdias talks about treating children and families for dis… Video Rating: 0 /…

  • Medicare & You: Cataract Awareness

    Medicare & You: Cataract Awareness

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    June is Cataract Awareness Month. Join CMS’ Director for the Center for Program Integrity, Dr. Shantanu Agrawal as he shares helpful information regarding ey… Cynthia Whisker tells her EHR story, including the benefits of EHRs and how they have affected her as a patient and a caregiver.

  • Medicare: Judge dismisses observation care lawsuit; Medicare penalizes every D.C. hospital, 5 in VA. suburbs;

    Medicare: Judge dismisses observation care lawsuit; Medicare penalizes every D.C. hospital, 5 in VA. suburbs;

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    A federal court judge dismissed a lawsuit Monday which was filed against the government by 14 Medicare beneficiaries who were denied nursing home coverage because they had been kept in the hospital under “observation status.” From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130925/Medicare-Judge-dismisses-observation-care-lawsuit3b-Medicare-penalizes-every-DC-hospital-5-in-VA-suburbs3b.aspx

  • State highlights: N.C. Medicaid director resigns, heads to private sector; Ohio readies funding for new Medicaid computer system

    State highlights: N.C. Medicaid director resigns, heads to private sector; Ohio readies funding for new Medicaid computer system

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    Carol Steckel, the state’s Medicaid director, is leaving after eight months on the job. Her departure is the latest in a string of high-profile departures from the Department of Health and Human Services, which has been plagued of late by personnel issues (Hoban, 9/23). From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130925/State-highlights-NC-Medicaid-director-resigns-heads-to-private-sector3b-Ohio-readies-funding-for-new-Medicaid-computer-system.aspx

  • Report: Small Physician Practices Switching EMR Systems

    Report: Small Physician Practices Switching EMR Systems

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    Small physician practices are leaving their vendors at an unprecedented rate as electronic medical record (EMR) software systems have failed to meet rising expectations, according to a new report from Orem, Utah-based research company, KLAS research. Small physician practices are leaving their vendors at an unprecedented rate as electronic medical record (EMR) software systems have…

  • GOP senators call for delay of Meaningful Use Stage 2

    GOP senators call for delay of Meaningful Use Stage 2

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    Seventeen Republican senators have joined the chorus of stakeholders urging the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services to delay Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use Incentive Program. read more Source: GOP senators call for delay of Meaningful Use Stage 2

  • ONC clarifies Meaningful Use changes to come in 2014

    ONC clarifies Meaningful Use changes to come in 2014

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    The year 2014 brings about many changes to even Stage 1 of the Meaningful Use program, according to a recent blog post by Steven Posnack, director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s federal policy division. read more Source: ONC clarifies Meaningful Use changes to come in 2014

  • Paper, Fax Still Prevalent in Data Exchange, Report Finds

    Paper, Fax Still Prevalent in Data Exchange, Report Finds

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    More than 70 percent of senior hospital IT executives reported that their organization was part of a health information exchange organization (HIO), although many facilities reported difficulties in exchanging patient information in robust, meaningful ways, according to a recent Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Analytics report. More than 70 percent of senior hospital…

  • EHR question has evolved from ‘if’ to ‘how’

    EHR question has evolved from ‘if’ to ‘how’

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    I write a lot about how electronic health records have the potential to improve research, catch diagnostic errors and boost care. Much of this is the macro picture of EHRs and health IT as it… read more Source: EHR question has evolved from ‘if’ to ‘how’