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May 10, 2013In an effort to take the first steps toward a more transparent pricing structure in the U.S. healthcare market, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday published nationwide hospital charge data showing wide variations in how much Medicare pays … Continue reading
Posted in CMS | Tagged CMS, CMS Policy, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT Services, Patient Experience | Leave a commentHHS Unveils New Tools To Educate Healthcare Providers About The HIPAA Privacy And Security Rules
May 2, 2013The Department of Health and Human Services, in its auditing and enforcement activities, has confirmed that a lack of training is a common cause of HIPAA compliance difficulties. So it’s taking several steps to help. This week, HHS unveiled … Continue reading
Posted in HIPAA Complicance | Tagged Environmental Intelligence, Health IT Information Security, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, HHS, HIPAA Compliance, HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, Meaningful Use, PHI, PHI Data Security, Stage 2 Meaningful Use Rule | Leave a commentEnvironmental Intelligence Releases April 2013 EI Connections Newsletter
May 1, 2013Environmental 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
Posted in Environmental Intelligence | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, EI Connections Newsletter, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Information Security, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, HIPAA Compliance, HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, Meaningful Use, medical practice best practices, ONC, Patient Experience, PHI, PHI Data Security | Leave a commentOCR Audits Find Widespread Lack Of Understanding Of New HIPAA Data And Security Rules
April 25, 2013Simply knowing all the rules could prevent many of the problems plaguing data security and privacy among healthcare providers and insurers.Nearly one-third of the 980 problems that HHS’ Office of Civil Rights uncovered during privacy and data-security audits of 115 … Continue reading
Posted in HIPAA Complicance | Tagged Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Information Security, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, HIPAA Compliance, HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, OCR, OCR Audits | Leave a commentHow Health IT Can Build Patient Trust
April 23, 2013Medicine is a two-way street; it works best when the patient and the provider trust each other, and can work together for the best outcome. While technology can enable those outcomes, when improperly used — consider the epidemic of patient … Continue reading
Posted in Health IT | Tagged Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Information Security, Health IT Services, HIPAA Compliance, HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, Patient Experience, PHI Data Security, PHI Security | Leave a commentFlorida Insurer Addresses Interoperability
April 23, 2013Florida 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
Posted in Health It Interoperability | Tagged EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Interoperability, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Services | Leave a commentCMS To Assess Quality Measures
April 19, 2013Centers 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
Posted in CMS | Tagged CMS, CMS Policy, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Services, HHS | Leave a commentHHS Launches New Patient Safety Workgroup
April 18, 2013Members of a new workgroup focused on ways to improve patient safety and promote innovation in health IT, including mobile medical applications, have been selected by the Department of Health and Human Services and Federal Communications Commission. The workgroup will … Continue reading
Posted in HHS | Tagged EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, HHS, Patient Experience | Leave a commentSenators Express Health IT Policy Concerns
April 17, 2013Six 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
Posted in Health IT Policy | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, CMS Policy, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health Information Exchange, Health IT, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, HIE, Meaningful Use, ONC | Leave a commentCMS-ONC Session to Address EHR Billing Controversy
April 16, 2013The 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
Posted in Electronic Health Records | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, CMS Policy, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, ONC | Leave a comment ← Older posts Newer posts →
