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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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OCR Audits Find Widespread Lack Of Understanding Of New HIPAA Data And Security Rules

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Simply 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

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How Health IT Can Build Patient Trust

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Medicine 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

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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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Health IT Key For Critical Patient Care Following Boston Bombing

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As a Bostonian and an emergency physician, Jonathan Teich’s first instinct when the explosions shook the Boston Marathon on April 15 ordinarily would have been to rush to Brigham & Women’s Hospital to help treat the victims, many of whom … 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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HHS Launches New Patient Safety Workgroup

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Members 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

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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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Best Practices For Being OCR Audit Ready

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Healthcare information security staffers rightly worry about OCR audits and want to prepare their facilities for an assessment. But how do you best measure the progress of your security program? Alain Bouit, director of IT security at Adventist Health, a … Continue reading

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