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Environmental Intelligence Releases April 2013 EI Connections Newsletter

Posted on by Frank J. Rosello

Environmental Intelligence LLC is pleased to release its April 2013 EI Connections Newsletter.  Please send your feedback or suggestions to [email protected]. Click Here to view: April 2013 EI Connections Newsletter Want to automatically receive our monthly newsletter?  Click on this link to … Continue reading

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CMS To Assess Quality Measures

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is partnering with Cambridge, Mass.-based analytics firm GNS Healthcare and Health Services Advisory Group to assess CMS quality measures. GNS officials say the firm will deploy its REFS, or Reverse Engineering and Forward Simulation, … Continue reading

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Senators Express Health IT Policy Concerns

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Six Republican Senators are asking the healthcare community for input on “recalibrating” health information technology policy, arguing that there are several problems with the current trajectory of the meaningful use program. In a white paper titled “Reboot: Re-examining the Strategies Needed to … Continue reading

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CMS-ONC Session to Address EHR Billing Controversy

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The controversy over the appropriate use of health information technology systems to streamline workflow while not fraudulently increasing healthcare claims will get a public airing early next month.The CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology … Continue reading

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CMS Updates 2014 Meaningful Use Hospital CQMs

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Tuesday, April 2nd, published an update for the 2014 Clinical Quality Measures for hospitals eligible for the meaningful use program. At the same time, CMS also issued corresponding specifications for electronic … Continue reading

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ONC Launches Second State Level MU Challenge

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HHS has launched a second year of a friendly competition between the states and U.S. territories to give them incentives to promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology among their citizens and organizations.Called the State Meaningful Use … Continue reading

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CMS Changes Course, Will Raise 2014 Medicare Advantage Payments

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Under a withering barrage of pressure from the insurance industry, seniors groups and Congressional members from both sides of the aisle, CMS on Monday did an about face and significantly raised its 2014 growth percentage estimate for the Medicare Advantage … Continue reading

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New EHR Bill Would Help Struggling Providers Achieve Meaningful Use

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A newly proposed bill garnering the support of several medical associations would establish exemptions and amend certain penalties for Medicare providers struggling to attest to meaningful use. The Electronic Health Records Improvement Act, sponsored by Representative Diane Black (R-Tenn.), would … Continue reading

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Environmental Intelligence Releases March 2013 EI Connections Newsletter

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Environmental Intelligence LLC is pleased to release its March 2013 EI Connections Newsletter.  Please send your feedback or suggestions to [email protected]. Click Here to view: March 2013 EI Connections Newsletter Want to automatically receive our monthly newsletter?  Click on this link to … Continue reading

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EHR Incentive Payments Reach $12 Billion

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With some healthcare providers now into their second year of meaningful use reporting, Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record payments were estimated at $12.3 billion paid to a total of 219,000 physicians and hospitals through the end of February 2013 … Continue reading

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