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20
Feb
2013
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will develop a new records system that will facilitate quality reporting for long term hospital care, according to Federal Register notice posted on Wednesday, February 6, 2013. Specific quality metrics quantifying the care … Continue reading
19
Feb
2013
Electronic health records (EHRs) have to be usable and useful by physicians and integrate with hospitals’ or practices’ other systems to benefit providers or else the money spent on them is just wasted. A Physician Focused, Patient Driven®approach to EHR … Continue reading
15
Feb
2013
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS is acknowledging that some snags on its end are creating a bottleneck in its program to ensure that electronic health record systems used by hospitals, office-based physicians and … Continue reading
14
Feb
2013
Tracking Medicaid beneficiaries who frequently use emergency departments and adopting electronic tracking systems to exchange patient information is among one of the ways states can cut Medicaid costs, according to a new report by the Washington Health Care Authority (HCA). … Continue reading
13
Feb
2013
Acknowledging that new health information technologies can create patient-safety risks, HHS’ health IT office invited healthcare providers, vendors and the public to comment on its recently issued national Health Information Technology Patient Safety Action & Surveillance Plan.“Just as health IT … Continue reading
12
Feb
2013
The Office of the National Coordinator’s Health IT Standards Committee is urging ONC leaders to lean towards menu options and certification for use cases on Stage 3 meaningful use rather than core requirements, and to especially keep in mind that … Continue reading
11
Feb
2013
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has officially outlined a redesign for pediatric electronic health record (EHR) systems, calling on vendors to improve functionality and customization features, officials announced Thursday. In the new EHR format, AHRQ set forth … Continue reading
08
Feb
2013
The American Hospital Association (AHA) has recommended changes to an interim Stage 2 final rule, with a focus on easing clinical quality measure reporting for certain hospitals, officials announced last week. The group is pressing the Centers for Medicare and … Continue reading
07
Feb
2013
EHR implementation, meaningful use and compliance are the top three healthcare CIO priorities for 2013, according to a study released Feb. 4 by Level 3. The study found that EHR implementations are both their single biggest challenge and priority for … Continue reading
06
Feb
2013
As a new generation of seniors enters Medicare and millions of lower-income Americans gain Medicaid or private insurance for the first time in 2014, federal officials at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT are trying to help … Continue reading
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