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CMS EHR incentive payments flirt with $7 billion

Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record payments are approaching $7 billion since its inception, with $6.9 billion paid out to 143,800 physicians and hospitals in total program estimates through the end of August.Final figures will be available later this month as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid captures more complete data.In August, the agency paid about $500 million in incentives, with about $325 million going to Medicare providers and $175 [...]

 

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In Arkansas, building an HIE from scratch

Ray Scott was pretty much ready to retire when Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe asked to him to work as a consultant in the state’s health IT office. With Arkansas lagging in electronic health record use and also ranking as one of the poorest, sickest and most obesity-plagued states, Beebe, a Democrat, was trying to improve and modernize the state’s health system, and wanted Scott to help craft an application for [...]

 

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Romney and Ryan camps clarify health law positions

On Sunday, GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press, said he would keep the popular provision in President Barack Obama’s health law that “makes sure those with pre-existing conditions can get coverage.”And on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulus, Paul Ryan appeared to back a lesser-known part of the law called “maintenance of effort” that prohibits states from making it harder for people to get covered by [...]

 

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What the platforms tell us about parties' stance on health IT

It’s a joke without a punch line: Both Republican and Democratic national party platforms make sparse mention of health IT.To be certain, there’s plenty of focus on the broader healthcare issues. The GOP platform, in fact, dedicates its first two sections to ‘Saving Medicare for future generations’ and ‘Strengthening Medicaid in the states’, while the Democrats also address the issue early on with a section about healthcare as part of [...]

 

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As Obama goes so go many groundbreaking ACA benefits

The presidential election holds potential to alter the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) fate.For most of the ACA’s impactful benefits to be realized, President Barack Obama must be re-elected, because GOP nominee Mitt Romney has spent many months campaigning on the promise that he will repeal the ACA on his first day in office.Acknowledging that the health reform law “is not the end of efforts to improve healthcare,” [...]

 

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Mostashari calls for vendors to add Blue Button quickly

Farzad Mostashari, MD, the national health IT coordinator, has challenged vendors to make it easy for consumers by early 2013 to view, download and transmit to another party their health information in the form of a Blue Button feature.The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has established a Twitter hashtag of #VDTnow for companies and organizations to post their commitment to establishing the feature.Implementing the functionality for view, [...]

 

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Mining data for state CDC, Maine HIE pilot project aims for population analysis

The Maine HealthInfoNet is aggregating and analyzing health information exchange data at the population level, with the aim of finding trends and specific figures that currently evade most tools of epidemiology.In a pilot project funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HealthInfoNet, Maine’s statewide HIE, is collecting and assembling data for the Maine CDC, using the open source software popHealth. The project focuses on 13 Meaningful Use clinical [...]

 

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HHS opens innovators program to public voting

For the first time, the public can vote on their favorite innovation from among the finalists of the HHSinnovates Program, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced this past Friday.Launched in the spring of 2010 as part of HHS’s open government efforts, HHSinnovates is meant to recognize innovative projects from HHS employees aimed at helping solve thorny healthcare challenges.“The HHSinnovates Program recognizes and rewards good ideas and facilitates the [...]

 

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The political healthcare week that was on Twitter

In a new Twitter record for politics, President Barack Obama’s Democratic National Convention speech spurred people around the world to Tweet at a rate of 52,757 per minute, tech blog Mashable reported.In related news, Mashable noted, the $100,000-each Twitter trends Republicans and Democrats have been promoting — #RomneyRyan2012, #AreYouBetterOff, #16TrillionFail and #Forward2012 — haven’t really worked out for either of them. A lot of people using the hashtags have done [...]

 

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ONC drops pursuit of NwHIN governance

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has dropped pursuit of a regulation for establishing “rules of the road” for the nationwide health information network (NwHIN) based on feedback it has received.Commenters from industry and the public made it clear that federal regulation could slow development of health information exchange just as those activities are starting to emerge and pick up steam, “perhaps more than is widely appreciated,” [...]

 

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SIX E-LEARNING MYTHS AND THE REALITIES ASSOCIATED WITH IT

E-learning courses have seen a downward trend in recent times. In this article; we look at several misconceptions and realities associated with e-learning courses. E-learning industry has been going through a tough stage. There are mixed reactions which have been received from students about the quality of e-learning courses. There are some misconceptions associated with e-learning which needs to be clarified. Let us look at these misconceptions and the realities [...]

 

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Addressing Security for iPads, iPhones

A national network of cancer hospitals that has relied heavily on laptop computers for clinicians accessing electronic health records is phasing in iPads and iPhones, taking steps to mitigate the security risks involved. As it rolls out Apple mobile devices, Cancer Treatment Centers of America initially is limiting users to view-only access to clinical information, says Chad A. Eckes, CIO. At first, clinicians won’t be able to use the devices to place [...]

 

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Managed Care - Data mining technology to manage outpatient cost

2nd Annual Healthcare & Insurance Collaboration Forum 2011. Managing Costs, Expanding the Market and Promoting win-win for All 14-16 November 2011. Dr Low Lee Yong, CEO of MHC Asia Group shared about how MHC controls healthcare cost through effective use of technology. Data mining of utilization of medical claims is an effective way to manage outpatient cost. www.mhcasia.com www.mhcasia.com www.lowleeyong.com http

 

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