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Health IT Taking Flight – What Is in Store for the Year Ahead

Farzad Mostashari,MD | Healthcare IT News | January 31, 2012

Earlier this month, I wrote about some of the most important and notable highlights in the world of health IT and ONC over the past year. The achievements of 2011 built on hard work and progress, which has been underway for many years.The HITECH Act is helping to accelerate this momentum—like a turbocharger in a racecar. Read More »

Healthcare for Veterans: Does it Pay to Take Vets Off Medicaid?

David E. Williams | Med City News | January 17, 2012

Surprisingly (to me anyway) there are numerous veterans who end up on Medicaid instead of turning to the VA system, which offers richer benefits. For example, some veterans qualify for the VA’s Aid and Attendance Pension, which helps low-income veterans and widows receive long-term care in their home or an institution. Medicaid may attempt to recover costs by going after an enrollee’s estate, while the VA doesn’t. And the VA may also provide a pension for elderly and disabled veterans and their survivors, and a death benefit.

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Healthcare Technology Costs Top $32,500 per Physician

Press Release | Medical Group Management Association | August 10, 2016

As they move to digitize their practices and patient medical records, healthcare organizations across the country continue to grapple with significant increases in information technology costs. According to new data from Medical Group Management Association, physician-owned multispecialty practices spent more than $32,500 per full-time physician on information technology equipment, staff, maintenance, and other related expenses in 2015...

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HHS Offers $665M To Spark Innovation

Bernie Monegain | Healthcare IT News | December 17, 2014

The government has divvied up more than $665 million to states for designing and testing ways to improve healthcare quality, accessibility and affordability. The awards will go to 28 states, three territories and the District of Columbia...

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HHS on EMR Adoption and Paying to Keep People Healthy

Brian Klein | medGadget | October 3, 2011

Over 80,000 providers, as of July 31 of this year, had registered to participate in the meaningful use program, which is a great start. Read More »

HIE, Interoperability Still Center Stage

Anthony Brino | Healthcare IT News | August 8, 2013

As Farzad Mostashari, MD, prepares to leave the ONC, his office and  the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are looking to the future and plotting long-term information exchange and interoperability policy strategies. Read More »

Hospitals Must Attest To Meaningful Use By November 30

Nicole Freeman | EHR Intelligence | November 22, 2013

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) would like to remind hospitals that the deadline for attestation for the Medicare EHR Incentive Program is November 30. Those who do not attest by that time will not be able to receive a 2013 incentive. Read More »

How Fast is Health IT Spreading and What Are the Benefits

Chris Fleming | Health Affairs Blog | March 9, 2012

Adoption of health information technology (IT) throughout the health care system is “on the march,” according to Farzad Mostashari, the national coordinator for health IT. Nearly 2,000 US hospitals and more than 41,000 doctors have now met the standards for achieving meaningful use of health IT, and have received $3.1 billion in federal incentive payments as a result. Read More »

How mHealth Can Benefit Homeless Veterans

Judy Mottl | Fierce Mobile Healthcare | September 26, 2014

Homeless veterans would benefit from mHealth tools, including text, email and Internet services access, and support organizations focused on helping ex-military personnel with healthcare should tap such technologies to boost care and treatment, according to a new study...

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How Should California Measure Quality in Health Care?

Staff Writer | California Healthline | January 30, 2012

Among the reforms spelled out in the Affordable Care Act is development of two fundamental activities largely absent in health care -- recognizing and rewarding quality care. The first, and possibly most important, step toward those goals is determining how to measure quality -- both in the delivery of clinical care and in the prevention of illness and injury. Read More »

Humetrix Demonstrates DIRECT and Mobile Enabled Provider-to-Patient EHR Exchange for Interoperability with the Cerner EHR at Health 2.0 Fall Conference

Press Release | Humetrix | October 1, 2017

At the Health 2.0 Fall Conference Humetrix will demo its suite of apps; iBlueButton, SOS QR, and Tensio at booth #308. On October 3, Humetrix and Cerner will participate in a session entitled “Breaking Down the Silos” taking place at 11:20 a.m. During the session, Humetrix will demo the award-winning mobile health platform, iBlueButton, which enables patients to immediately receive, at any point of care, their summary health record from any federally certified EHR system using the DIRECT secure messaging protocol.

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Humetrix to Demo its Award-Winning SOS QR Emergency & Disaster Preparedness Mobile Platform at FCC Accessibility Innovations Expo

Press Release | Humetrix | October 20, 2017

Humetrix, developer of the award-winning SOS QR emergency mobile platform, last year’s recipient of the FCC Chairman’s Awards for Advancements in Accessibility (AAA), is honored to participate in this year’s FCC Accessibility Innovation Expo taking place on October 23 in Washington, DC.

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ICD-10 Two Months In: Consultants Give an Inside Look at How the Transition Has Impacted the Industry

Rajiv Leventhal | Healthcare Informatics | December 8, 2015

Leading up to the healthcare industry’s transition to the ICD-10 coding set on Oct. 1, 2015, there seemed to be a collective feeling of uncertainty on the part of providers—particularly physician practices that frequently expressed doubt about their readiness for the shift. What’s more, numerous pieces of legislation were introduced into Congress, several of which advocated a “grace period” where healthcare providers’ ICD-10-based claims submitted to Medicare and Medicaid would not be denied due to coding errors. This led to providers becoming even more leery if the transition would indeed occur on the set date, given that it was delayed three times previously...

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Important Deadlines Approaching For Meaningful Use Program

Matthew Smith | Health Directions | July 17, 2013

Meaningful use, the government program of financial rewards and penalties for encouraging doctors to use electronic health records (EHRs), has several important deadlines approaching. Read More »

Industry Exclusive Interview: Todd Park, HHS's CTO

Mark Hagland | Health Informatics | October 5, 2011

On Wednesday, Oct. 5, Todd Park, chief technology officer of the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) helped open the Merge Live 2011 Client Conference, a user-group conference sponsored by the Chicago-based Merge Healthcare, and taking place this week at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in downtown Chicago. Read More »