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Obamacare A Successful Failure

Samuel Metz | Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News | October 31, 2014

Is the Affordable Care Act a failure? For some of us, the answer is simple: If you voted for President Obama, it must be a success. If you voted against the president, it must be a failure...

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OIG: Medicare Could Have Saved $910M On Lab Tests

Ashley Gold | FierceHealthcare | June 12, 2013

Medicare could have saved $910 million--38 percent--on lab test payments if it would have paid providers at the lowest established rate in each geographic area, according to a report from the Office of the Inspector General. Read More »

ONC Advancing Blue Button, CDS Standards Efforts

Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | September 24, 2012

Developers in an ONC voluntary community are beginning to drill down into what will be required to automate the Blue Button feature to exchange patient health information at the consumer’s request under different scenarios. Read More »

ONC calls out information blockers

Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | April 10, 2015

Having received many complaints in recent months about vendors and providers engaging in information blocking, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is "becoming increasingly concerned about these practices, which devalue taxpayer investments in health IT and are fundamentally incompatible with efforts to transform the nation’s health system."

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ONC Chief Urges Vendors To Go For Blue Button ASAP

Mary Mosquera | Healthcare IT News | September 12, 2012

Farzad Mostashari, MD, the national health IT coordinator, has challenged vendors to make it easy for consumers by early 2013 to view, download and transmit to another party their health information in the form of a Blue Button feature. Read More »

ONC Chief's Early Years Inform Her Work

Anthony Brino | Healthcare IT News | January 16, 2014

Karen DeSalvo, MD, has stepped into the role of national coordinator for healthcare information technology at a time when American healthcare is in a state of unprecedented change. Read More »

ONC Goes Hollywood to Showcase Health IT

Mary Mosquera | Healthcare IT News | December 7, 2011

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is going Hollywood, or at least contracting a California production company, to create a video to explain to the public the value of health IT and how individuals can engage with their providers. Read More »

ONC Offers Guidance To Providers Ineligible For MU

Mike Miliard | Government Health IT | September 11, 2013

As it works to broaden health information exchange capabilities across the care continuum, the Office of the National Coordinator has drawn up a certification guidance aimed at technology developers serving specialized providers who are ineligible for Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive payments. Read More »

Only Trump Can Go To Single-Payer

Today, I want to submit to you that only Trump can make single-payer health care happen in this country. Only a billionaire, surrounded by a cabinet of billionaires, representing a party partial to billionaires, can make that hazardous 180 degrees political turn and better the lives of the American people, and perhaps the entire world as a result. Oh, I know it’s too soon to make this observation, but note that both Mr. Nixon and Mr. Begin were deeply resented (to put it mildly) in their times, by the same type of people who find Mr. Trump distasteful today.

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Over 500 Organizations Representing Patients, Healthcare Providers, Employers Urge Congress To Eliminate IPAB

Press Release | Healthcare Leadership Council | April 25, 2013

Letter to Capitol Hill Says Independent Payment Advisory Board would “severely limit Medicare beneficiaries’ access to care” Read More »

PatientPing Raises $31.6 Million From Andreessen Horowitz and Leerink Transformation Partners to Accelerate Growth of its National Care Coordination Network

Press Release | PatientPing | December 6, 2016

PatientPing, a health technology company that connects providers to seamlessly coordinate patient care, announced today that it has received $31.6 million in Series B funding led by Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz and Boston-based Leerink Transformation Partners (LTP). The funding will help fuel the company's rapid expansion into new geographies and accelerate the development of product enhancements. PatientPing also plans to at least double the size of its team by actively hiring inspired change-makers for its growth, operations, engineering, and product development teams...

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Patients Get Access to Lab Results, Under New Proposal

David Sell | The Inquirer | September 12, 2011

Patients in Pennsylvania — as they already can in New Jersey and Delaware — could get results directly from a laboratory instead of waiting for a delivery from a doctor, under a proposal to change federal law announced Monday by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Read More »

Pentaho Addresses Healthcare Data Challenges with HL7 Support

Rebecca Shomair | Pentaho Community | November 15, 2011

Pentaho Corporation, the business analytics company providing power for technologists and rapid insight for users, today announced native support for the Health Level Seven International (HL7) standard with Pentaho Business Analytics. Read More »

Physician Panel Prescribes the Fees Paid by Medicare

Anna Wilde Matthews and Tom McGinty | Wall Street Journal | October 26, 2010

Three times a year, 29 doctors gather around a table in a hotel meeting room. Their job is an unusual one: divvying up billions of Medicare dollars.

The group, convened by the American Medical Association, has no official government standing. Members are mostly selected by medical-specialty trade groups. Anyone who attends its meetings must sign a confidentiality agreement. Read More »

Premier Survey Shows EHR Buyers' Remorse

Bernie Monegain | Healthcare IT News | June 2, 2014

Even as healthcare providers across the country are struggling to make their new, expensive technology work, a new survey shows providers are more frustrated with their purchases than ever...

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