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 Incentive Program for physicians and hospitals that qualify.
CMS Gives Attestation Insights
Attestation for Medicare’s electronic health records meaningful use incentive program opened on April 18, and 150 providers successfully attested that day. Although the process is designed to be self-explanatory, CMS offered pointers through a Web seminar, recapped here.
Skepticism Greets Medicare ACO Shared Savings Program
The proposed rule for accountable care organizations allows physicians to share quality rewards, but some experts question how many will buy into the program.
ONC Plans To Iron Out Standards for Next Stage of Meaningful Use
In the next four months, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT plans to work out certification and standards-related details that will help guide vendors under Stage 2 of the meaningful use program.
Tech Upstarts Reveal the Flaws in Healthcare IT
It is something that patients in many countries are acutely aware of: while our personal lives are effortlessly kept in sync by the internet and mobile devices, the management of our healthcare can seem stuck in the dark ages.
Patient Data Access Will Kickstart PCAST Exchange Vision
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT could include measures for the use and promotion of patient portals and direct access to their data in the next stage of meaningful use. Patient data could also be downloaded to a personal health record.
Low Carbohydrate Diet May Reverse Kidney Failure in People with Diabetes
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have for the first time determined that the ketogenic diet, a specialized high-fat, low carbohydrate diet, may reverse impaired kidney function in people with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. They also identified a previously unreported panel of genes associated with diabetes-related kidney failure, whose expression was reversed by the diet.
Doc, This Itching Is Making Me Crazy
More than half of all patients undergoing dialysis complain of pruritus, and the mechanism isn’t really very well understood. One nephrologists attepts to make sense of it in this blog post on Renal Fellow Network.
People Who Donate Organs For Transplants Can Have Difficulty Getting Insurance
There’s no medical upside in donating an organ and now, apparently, no insurance benefit either. Living donors can experience difficulty finding affordable—or any—health insurance after the fact, as insurers sometimes claim that the donation is equivalent to a preexisting medical condition.
Tables Turn as Concord Doctor Needs Kidney Transplant
Saving lives in the emergency room is everyday fare for Dr. Jon Hobbs. But recently, suffering from the genetic disorder called polycystic kidney disease (PKD), he found himself in his physician’s office fighting to save his own life.
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