CMS Issues Reminders About Meaningful Use Program Deadlines
The end is near! CMS is reminding health care providers about upcoming deadlines for attesting to meaningful use of electronic health records.
IT Executives Reject Meaningful Use Metadata Standards
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has rejected the idea that metadata standards be included in the next notice of proposed rulemaking to support Meaningful Use Stage 2, saying more work needs to be done to verify these standards before they are implemented and used across the healthcare provider community.
Nearly All U.S. Doctors Are Now on Social Media
Although most physicians are active on sites personally—and many professionally—they have been reluctant to engage with patients.
HHS Launches New Affordable Care Act Initiative to Strengthen Primary Care
An initiative from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will provide bonuses to primary care doctors who better coordinate care and help use health care dollars more wisely.
Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me – Is More Dialysis Better?
What growing research shows in the world of kidney failure, specifically that dialysis dose does matter and more is better.
DOPPS Practice Monitor: Early Trends in US Dialysis Care After Medicare Reimbursement Changes
A summary of the first nationally representative, publicly available data to report dialysis care since PPS implementation.
The Long Dialysis Weekend Might Kill You, But We Won’t Change
Ten years after the calls for the FHN randomized and controlled trial, forty years after Dr. Kjellstrand’s reports and over fifty years since Dr. Scribner urged America to save lives, the dialysis community can progress no further than to call for more study.
Surgeons Object to New CDC Organ-Screening Guidelines
New guidelines for stricter testing of organ donors are raising concerns among transplant surgeons, who fear they may limit availability of organs.
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