Nephrologists in Accountable Care Organizations—Do They Have a Role? A video by Jeffrey S. Berns, MD, Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services attempts to … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: April 22, 2011
CMS: Let the Meaningful Use Attestation Begin The launch of the online attestation system on April 18 marks the beginning of activities that will result in payments under the CMS Medicare EHR … [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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: March 18, 2011
Meaningful Use: 15 Things Your Practice Can--and Should--Do Now In this “Curbside Consult” on the popular HIS Talk blog, Dr. Jayne shares some tips and tricks for clinicians on the practice side to … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: March 11, 2011
Review of Recent Studies Shows Predominantly Positive Results for Health Information Technology Using methods that were employed by two previous independent reviews, a new study finds that 92 percent … [Read more...]
