Indian Firms Face Resistance in Digitizing U.S. Medical Records Sensitivity over outsourcing and resistance by American hospitals to sending medical information overseas could prevent Indian … [Read more...]
Reporting Clinical Quality Measures: A CMS Meaningful Use Objective
The CMS EHR incentive program includes three foundational cornerstones: 1. Meaningful Use 2. Interoperability 3. Reporting Quality Measures For the physician, reporting quality measures … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: October 29, 2010
MGMA Survey Report Reveals Improved Financial Performance with EHRs Medical Group Management Association survey shows that medical groups with EHRs report better financial performance than practices … [Read more...]
The Nephrologist and the Future of PQRI
Over the past several weeks I have received questions from some of our customers regarding the future of PQRI. As a bit of background, the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) has its origin … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: October 22, 2010
FDA May Limit Anemia Drug Use For Kidney Disease The FDA posted its safety review of the three blood-boosting medications from Amgen Inc. – Procrit, Aranesp and Epogen – and is considering new … [Read more...]
E-prescribing and the CMS EHR Incentive Program
Last week I reviewed the stand-alone CMS e-prescribing incentive program. Today I want to explore e-prescribing in the context of the new CMS EHR incentive. E-Rx is one of the core meaningful use … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: October 15, 2010
Researchers Develop New Therapy to Overcome Tissue Incompatibility in Kidney Transplantation Donor kidneys can be successfully transplanted even if there is strong tissue incompatibility between donor … [Read more...]
RPA’s Public Policy in a Minute: October 2010
Renal Physicians Association Public Policy in a Minute for October, with Rob Blaser, Director of Public Policy. … [Read more...]
