This time of year bears witness to many changes. The autumn foliage has come and gone, the Cowboys and Vikings will finish the season with new coaches, and PQRI has a new name. Okay, perhaps these … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: November 26, 2010
Fresenius Medical Care Introduces 2008T Hemodialysis Delivery System In North America The world's largest provider of dialysis products and services introduced a smart-platform dialysis system at the … [Read more...]
CMS e-Prescribing Program: The Hammer Falls
The final rule for the 2011 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule was published two weeks ago. At just over 2,000 pages, the PFS contains a few nasty surprises related to e-prescribing. Participating in the … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: November 19, 2010
Unwrapping the Dialysis Bundle: Industry Reacts to New Payment System After deciphering the 923-page document, the industry let out a collective sigh of relief — for the most part. Worldwide … [Read more...]
RPA’s Public Policy in a Minute: November 2010
Renal Physicians Association Public Policy in a Minute for November, with Rob Blaser, Director of Public Policy. … [Read more...]
Dialysis Patients and the Meaningful Use Objectives
The CMS EHR Incentive program contains a hurdle of special interest to the nephrologist, which I will refer to as the “50% rule.” Effectively this rule states that in order to be eligible for the … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: November 12, 2010
Health Registry Could Transform Chronic Kidney Disease Care According to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN), a registry of health … [Read more...]
Meaningful Use and the High Threshold Objectives
Recently I reviewed the framework CMS is using for the EHR incentive program. You may recall that many of the meaningful use objectives have thresholds which must be met in order to successfully … [Read more...]
