On March 31, 2011, Health and Human Services published the notice of public rule making (NPRM) for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). Established by the Affordable Care Act, ACOs are proposed to … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: April 15, 2011
Process for Meaningful Use Payments Begins The wait is over for physicians who have gone through the process of becoming meaningful users of EMRs. Starting April 18, physicians can show CMS that they … [Read more...]
How to Train a Dragon: A Nephrologist’s Experience with Voice Recognition Software
In this first post by a guest blogger, nephrologist Peter Manring, MD, explains how he effectively uses the voice recognition software Dragon NaturallySpeaking and how physicians can get the most out … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: April 8, 2011
NIH Study Finds Genetic Clues to Major Cause of Kidney Disease Worldwide For the first time, researchers have found five regions in the human genome that increase susceptibility to immunoglobulin A … [Read more...]
Meaningful Use Attestation Arrives (Almost)
Last week CMS announced the meaningful use attestation process will be available on April 18. With this announcement, CMS has provided an early glimpse into the attestation process. This announcement … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: April 1, 2011
Making Clinical Trials Less of a Tribulation The shift to electronic medical records makes it easier to recruit patients for clinical trials—and keep them. Groups Look to Use EHR Data to Help … [Read more...]
The e-Prescribing Penalty: A Snake in the Grass?
At the annual RPA meeting last week in Washington, D.C., I entertained several questions related to the CMS e-prescribing penalty. I have described this penalty in other venues and in this blog. … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: March 25, 2011
Electronic Medical Records Improve Quality of Care in Resource-Limited Countries A new study demonstrates the impact of electronic record systems on quality of medical care in a developing … [Read more...]
