Use EHRs to Avoid Unnecessary Care
Electronic health records can do more than identify which patients should be receiving preventive and other additional services. They can also help providers pinpoint who shouldn’t receive care.
CMS Announces Medicare EHR Incentive Program Appeals Process
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued guidance creating a process and requirements for appealing eligibility, meaningful use and incentive payment determinations under the Medicare electronic health record incentive program, and has extended the filing deadline for hospitals.
HHS Launches Website Showing Meaningful Use Progress
The Dept. of Health and Human Services launched a website where the public can see how meaningful use incentive money has been distributed across the country.
Second EHR Incentive Rule Progresses
Federal regulators are a step closer to releasing a second proposed rule for Stage 2 of the HITECH Act electronic health record incentive program.
From Meaningful Use Stage 2 to Stronger HIPAA Regs, HHS Gets Ready to Juggle
The Department of Health and Human Services’ fall 2011 agenda, which it presented to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) this week, contains four rules directly impacting providers’ use of EHRs. Everyone wants to know: What will the regulations require?
HHS Initiative to Develop Best Practices for Mobile Device Use
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s Office of the Chief Privacy Officer and the HHS Office for Civil Rights have launched an initiative to identify privacy and security best practices for using mobile devices in health care settings
Kaiser Permanente, the largest managed care organization in the United States, has unveiled an Android app and mobile-optimized website through which its 9 million patients can access their own medical information anywhere in the world on their mobile devices.
Will HIEs Live Up to Their Promise?
With their lofty promise of enabling hospitals, doctors and other community providers to share clinical information electronically, health information exchanges have garnered plenty of buzz recently as an essential component of care coordination and accountable care. But will they succeed?
Online Tools Increase Efficiency, Speed of Kidney Donor Screening
Using web-based preliminary screening of potential kidney donors has resulted in a flood of applications at two U.S. transplant centers.
FDA Fails to Approve Cholesterol Drug for Kidney Disease
U.S. health regulators amended the prescribing label for Merck & Co’s cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin to show it prevents heart problems in patients with chronic kidney disease, but stopped short of approving its use for that purpose.
ECRI Offers Ways to Reduce Social Media Risks
ECRI Institute, an independent nonprofit organization that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, has published a new risk analysis, “Social Media in Healthcare,” to help providers deal with the risks posed by social media and is providing access to the report at no charge.
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