Tag: Health IT
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Medicaid expansion: Stiff resistance in South, Fla. Gov. Scott blasts watered-down plan
While most Southern states resist expanding Medicaid under the health law, Virginia appoints its final voting members to a commission that will oversee expansion there.
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Deadline to comment on CMS proposals to ‘accelerate’ HIE fast approaching
Comments from associations, practitioners and others have been adding up in response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Request for Information issued last month to accelerate and improve health information exchange and interoperability among providers. read more
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ONC to impose user fee on EHR vendors
One of the more unique provisions of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's proposed 2014 budget is the imposition of a new “user fee” on electronic health record vendors and developers to support ONC's certification and standardization activities. read more
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‘Practical Data’, ‘Actionable Data’ and ‘Useful Data’ vs. ‘Big Data’…
Protect yourself from Shadow IT, Embrace “good enough for HIPAA” secure cloud services like Box and Skydrive. It’s a common misconception that if executives at hospitals or practices don’t have time to deliver sophisticated IT solutions to their users that users will just wait… Shahid N. Shah, www.healthcareitguy.com April 17th, 2013
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N.J. doctor sentenced for attempted murder, fraud
A northern New Jersey doctor was sentenced Friday to nine years in state prison after he admitted to hiring a hit man to kill his lover and a former business partner, authorities said.
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Readers Write: Buy or Build: SaaS Can Make Sense for Meaningful Use Reporting
Buy or Build: SaaS Can Make Sense for Meaningful Use Reporting By John Hotchkiss The trials and tribulations of Meaningful Use (MU) have given new meaning to the lives of many of us in IT, and often not in a good way. An average 250-bed community hospital submitting its 90-day attestation report must process roughly…
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Readers Write: The Cost Savings Realized by Single-Platform Solutions
The Cost Savings Realized by Single-Platform Solutions By Deborah Kohn Medicare cutbacks, increased mergers and acquisitions, and declining revenues and margins are daily realities for healthcare provider organizations. Yet so are costly and often mandatory IT initiatives, such as replacing or implementing electronic health and financial record (EH&FR) systems, integrating and securing the next mobile…
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CHIME Time: EHR implementers face new challenges
Here in Iowa, we like to get going early. That’s particularly the case with my hospital.
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ONC proposes EHR vendor fee
Citing the crush of an increasing workload and dwindling government funding, the Office of the National Coordinator has proposed a health IT user fee that would be imposed on health IT vendors who certify their products through the ONC Health IT Certification Program. The HIMSS EHR Association opposes ONC’s proposal
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Aprima Partners with ClearDATA to Host EHR/PM Solutions on HIPAA Compliant Cloud Computing Platform
ClearDATA has announced a partnership with Aprima Medical Software to provide HIPAA-compliant cloud hosting of Aprima’s EHR/PM/RCM software and services solutions. ClearDATA fully supports the new HIPAA Omnibus Rule which states that all companies providing services associated with hosting, storage, backup, or transmission of patient information must sign a Business Associate Agreement along with the…