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  • GAO seeks clear standards on advanced-imaging scans

    GAO seeks clear standards on advanced-imaging scans

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    A lack of clear rules governing providers that perform advanced-imaging scans could undermine the federal goal of limiting Medicare patients’ exposure to radiation. …read more Source: http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130531/NEWS/305319947

  • Lingering security woes cost Idaho university $400K

    Lingering security woes cost Idaho university $400K

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    Idaho State University agreed to pay $400,000 and adopt a corrective action plan under a settlement agreement with the Office for Civil Rights at HHS over a breach of data security involving the records of about 17,500 patients at its Pocatello… …read more Source: Lingering security woes cost Idaho university $400K

  • University to pay $400,000 in data breach

    University to pay $400,000 in data breach

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    Idaho State University agreed to pay $400,000 and adopt a corrective action plan under a settlement agreement with the Office for Civil Rights at HHS over a breach of data security involving the records of about 17,500 patients at its Pocatello… …read more Source: http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130531/NEWS/305319954

  • Patient Engagement and Provider Collaborations Across the Healthcare Continuum to Improve Care Transitions

    Patient Engagement and Provider Collaborations Across the Healthcare Continuum to Improve Care Transitions

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    To rise to the challenge of non-compliant patients, providers should ask how they can work together to empower patients toward self-management rather than why patients are non-adherent in the first place, suggests Alicia Goroski, MPH, senior project director for care transitions for the Colorado Foundation for Medical Care (CFMC). CFMC coordinates the work of state-based…

  • Medicare Pioneer ACO: Case Study on Atrius Health’s Focus on the Triple Aim

    Medicare Pioneer ACO: Case Study on Atrius Health’s Focus on the Triple Aim

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    A core desire to create a single population-focused model of care for all Medicare beneficiaries, rather than multiple payor-driven approaches, drives Atrius Health’s participation in the CMS Pioneer ACO program, explains Emily Brower, executive director of accountable care programs at Atrius Health. The success of the Atrius ACO hinges on several preferred partnerships it has…

  • OCR to survey HIPAA-covered entities about audit process

    OCR to survey HIPAA-covered entities about audit process

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    The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights plans to survey 115 HIPAA-covered entities to get feedback on the auditing process, according to a notice published this week in the Federal Register. read more …read more Source: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/ocr-survey-hipaa-covered-entities-about-audit-process/2013-05-31?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

  • Bon Secours notifies patients of breach

    Bon Secours notifies patients of breach

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    Bon Secours Hampton Roads Health System is contacting more than 5,000 patients on behalf of its Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital in Newport News, Va., to let them know of an electronic health records security breach. …read more Source: Bon Secours notifies patients of breach

  • Hospitals rushing to build proton-beam treatment centers

    Hospitals rushing to build proton-beam treatment centers

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    In Washington, D.C., in particular, two new proton-beam cancer treatment facilities are on the verge of being approved by local government, even though in Baltimore–a mere 40 miles away–the Maryland Proton Treatment Center also is being built. read more …read more Source: Hospitals rushing to build proton-beam treatment centers

  • Big data privacy concerns linger despite potential for healthcare

    Big data privacy concerns linger despite potential for healthcare

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    While big data increasingly is being used as a tool to directly bolster patient care and could help to cut as much as $450 billion in costs from the U.S. healthcare system, some experts have tempered their expectations of its effectiveness in healthcare and beyond, citing privacy concerns. read more …read more Source: Big data…

  • Pennsylvania Signs Agreement to Connect HIEs

    Pennsylvania Signs Agreement to Connect HIEs

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    The Pennsylvania eHealth Partnership Authority, an independent state agency that aims to enable health information exchange (HIE), recently announced that it will integrate and share healthcare data from 11 different regional and statewide HIEs across the state. The platform, from the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Truven Health Analytics, will connect patient data from various providers, health…