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CMS Wants Your Vote on Clinical Quality Measures

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | February 27, 2012

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants to get feedback on a list of 125 potential clinical quality measures for physicians and 49 potential measures for hospitals as part of its proposed rule for meaningful use stage 2. Ultimately, CMS will decide on just a subset of the suggested measures. Read More »

Smartphones Improve Kenyan Disease Surveillance

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | March 13, 2012

Smartphones show promise in disease surveillance in the developing world because it is faster, cheaper and more accurate than traditional paper survey methods to gather disease information after the initial set–up cost. Read More »