Meaningful Use Incentive Payments Top $2.5 Billion
According to CMS, Federal and state governments have paid providers more than $2.5 billion in incentive payments for meaningful use of electronic health records
Mostashari: Meaningful Use to Reach New Heights
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Farzad Mostashari makes big assertions for meaningful use at the Jan. 10 meeting of the Health IT Policy Committee.
AMA Delegates Balk at ICD-10 Implementation
At its 2011 Interim Meeting held in November, the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association (AMA) voted to “work vigorously” to stop the implementation of ICD-10 diagnostic coding system.
Since HIPAA’s inception, health care providers and dialysis centers have struggled with the need to protect patient privacy, share information and keep paper work under control. The challenge continues.
Collaborative Efforts Can Save Money And Improve Care
Providers, insurers and hospitals are banding together in several areas of the country to tackle cost and quality issues.
Thousands of Seniors Lack Access to Lifesaving Organs, Despite Survival Benefit
A Johns Hopkins study finds that thousands of American senior citizens with kidney disease are good candidates for transplants and could get them if physicians would get past outdated medical biases and put them on transplant waiting lists.
Solar power can help offset high utility costs and make hemodialysis treatments more environmentally friendly, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN).
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