Patients with Online Access to Clinicians, Medical Records Have Increased Use of Clinical Services Patients with online access to their medical records and secure e-mail communication with clinicians … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup :: November 16, 2012
International Survey: 69 Percent of US Primary Care Doctors Now Have Electronic Medical Records Survey of 10 countries finds US Primary care doctors most likely to spend time dealing with insurance … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup :: November 9, 2012
Doctors Get Another Chance to Avoid Medicare E-prescribing Penalty CMS will let physicians claim a hardship exemption that would prevent a downward payment adjustment from taking effect in … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup :: November 2, 2012
Healthcare CIO Challenges Meaningful Use Naysayers In his latest entry on the Life as a Healthcare CIO, John Halamka, MD, has some choice words for critics of meaningful use and progress made in the … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup :: October 26, 2012
Stage 2 Meaningful Use Success Rests on 3 Elements Unlike the first stage of the meaningful use incentive program, for which practices mostly had to demonstrate they were capable of performing … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup :: October 19, 2012
Senate Republicans Send Letter to Sebelius with Concerns over Meaningful Use In a letter to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, four Republican senators … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup :: October 12, 2012
Electronic Health Records Shown to Improve the Quality of Patient Care New Weill Cornell study provides compelling evidence that commercially available electronic health records are associated with … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup :: October 5, 2012
Medicare’s Pay For Performance Effort Begins, Targeting Quality and Readmissions Starting Oct. 1, Medicare is withholding 1 percent of its regular hospital reimbursements in the new Value-Based … [Read more...]
