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Building Patient Trust Is Vital To Health Information Exchanges

Posted on by Frank J. Rosello

In recent weeks, federal regulators and their advisers have been deliberating about how best to earn patient trust that their privacy will be protected as their data is shared among providers via evolving health information exchanges. Keeping a focus on … Continue reading

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CMS Reports EHR Incentive Payments Surpass $13B

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Continuing the upward trajectory of EHR reimbursements flowing out into the healthcare industry, CMS said on Tuesday morning that the total paid as of March’s end is more than $13.7 billion. “March was a very big month,” said Rob Anthony … Continue reading

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Environmental Intelligence Releases April 2013 EI Connections Newsletter

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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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Florida Insurer Addresses Interoperability

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Florida Blue, the Sunshine State’s largest insurer, has launched a project with data exchange platform Availity and ambulatory electronic health record vendor Greenway that will enable physicians to exchange clinical summaries with the health plan through their EHRs. The initiative … 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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New Survey Finds Physicians Want To Limit Patient Access To Their EHR

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Even as policmakers are pushing patient engagement, a new survey signals doctors may not be ready to relinquish control of their patients’ medical record. Eighty-two percent of U.S. physicians responding to a recent survey indicated they want patients to actively … 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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