Medicare to Offer More Waivers from E-prescribing Penalty As many as 209,000 doctors and other health professionals could be eligible to claim exemptions by Oct. 1 to avoid 1% Medicare pay … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: June 17, 2011
Federal Health Tools, Data Help Docs Achieve Meaningful Use Innovative tools and data that federal health agencies have released to the public can help healthcare providers meet meaningful use of … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: June 10, 2011
Policy Panel Endorses Proposal To Delay Stage 2 of Meaningful Use On Wednesday, the Health IT Policy Committee endorsed a recommendation to delay by one year Stage 2 of the meaningful use program for … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: June 3, 2011
HHS Proposes Privacy Rule on Medical Records Patients could obtain a list of everyone who has accessed their electronic medical record under a rule proposed on Tuesday by the Department of Health and … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: May 27, 2011
Data Mining, EHRs Help Target Dangerous Drug Combo Data mining and electronic health records helped researchers at some of the country’s most prestigious universities discover a dangerous side effect … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: May 20, 2011
Do Electronic Medical Records Need a Bottom-Up Approach? Should electronic medical records be rolled out chiefly according to the needs of physicians and other providers? That’s the question debated … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: May 13, 2011
No Easy Fix for Nephrology 'Brain Drain' The field of nephrology needs to get creative in making itself more appealing to young medical students, researchers say. Interest in the field has been waning … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: May 6, 2011
Delay for Stage 2 Meaningful Use? An advisory panel that is shaping measures for the next stage of meaningful use has suggested delaying Stage 2 by one year, until 2014, as an option to give vendors … [Read more...]
