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HIMSS EHR Association And Regional Extension Centers Create Affiliation Called the Vendor Communications Workgroup

It appears medical record vendors as mentioned in a prior post have found another marketing partner with the REC centers offering discounts for purchase with licensing and now with HIMSS involved I’m not exactly sure how this will add more value, but...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 10:18 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EHR, HHS, Heatlh IT, Doctors, collaboration, HITECH, ONC, Regional Extension Centers, REC, HIMSS, Vendor Communications Group

HHS Opens New Website-Health Indicators Warehouse For Community Reported Data

If you want to look up community rankings on selected healthcare areas this may be the place for you. I can see this being useful for students for one in having to write reports for school and other businesses looking for community health data that...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2011 5:36 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, HHS, websites, statistics, community health, Health Indicators Warehouse

White House Proposes Medicare Doc Fix To The Payment Algorithm for 2 Years

Yes that is what this is, yet one more algorithm that created the plans for budgets and agency funding for a number of years . You have to step back and look at when the business model was created, years ago and then step back and look at where...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2011 11:30 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, medicare, Congress, HHS, Politics, White House, Budget, heatlhcare reform, algorithm, Algo Men

HealthVault-Setting Up Consumer Email Address For Secure Messages Using Government Direct Project

I am just going to address here how you as a a consumer get set up through HealthVault. As Sean has mentioned on the blog, there will be more information coming out for providers to get set up from their end. Now he says it’s simple...

Published Sat, Feb 02 2011 1:10 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, microsoft, Medical Records, Email, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, HHS, HIMMS, encryption, Gateway, ONC, Direct Project, NIHN

Microsoft States More Techies Will be Moved Into Executive Positions–Congress, White House Are you Listening-This is a Good Idea

We all know Microsoft is the king of code and they do a lot of stuff right but right now are losing a bit of ground in the mobility area with consumers and thus the shake up and changing around. Sometimes new ideas are a good thing along with new...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2011 3:16 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Microsoft/Windows News, My Commentaries, microsoft, Medical Records, Health IT, Education, HHS, Government, healthcare reform, role models, engineering, techies

David Blumenthal, M.D To Step Down As National Coordinator, Health Information Technology In the Spring

The article states that he will be returning to Harvard and this is a tough job to say the least. All over HHS new responsibilities are delving deeper into the actual need to have some hands on experience to help make sense in figuring out what...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 2:22 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, health insurance, Health IT, Medicaid, HHS, Code, Data, Algorithms, children, stimulus, data systems, Meaningful Use, Blumenthal, ONC, bugets, CIOs, bubble

HHS Creates 'Most Wanted' List Website for Healthcare Fraud - Office of the Inspector General

This is pretty hot stuff and is updated as to when the folks on the list get captured. There’s even a place on the site where you can report information about any of those listed on the “Most Wanted List” for healthcare fraud. To report one...

Published Sat, Feb 02 2011 4:26 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, HHS, Fraud, FBI, DOJ, healthcare reform, websites, report, Medicare fraud, Office of the Inspector General, tips, hotline

Aetna pulls Out of Individual Health Insurance Policies in Colorado as of August of 2012-Risk and Profit Algorithms At Work

Aetna began sending letters out this week so if you are an individual health insurance policy holder in Colorado, you have a little over a year left as policies will renew for one year only and August 1st of 2012 is the cut off date. Now the company...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2011 6:40 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, health insurance, Aetna, HHS, Heatlhcare, Goldman Sachs, reinsurance, Colorado, Cayman Islands, medical loss ratios, insurance exchanges

Microsoft Delivers Encrypted E-mail Using Government “Direct Project” Security Protocols With HealthVault Personal Health Records

Something we have all been waiting for today is finally open for business, the “Direct Project” from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. You can read the official press release from the ONC Office here. I have covered a...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2011 2:02 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Microsoft/Windows News, microsoft, Medical Records, Email, PHR, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, HHS, HIMMS, encryption, Quest Diagnostics, ONC, Direct Project, NIHN

AHRQ Needs Ideas Asking for Input from Experts As to How to Improve and Increase PHR Use by Consumers - Duh! Start By Becoming Role Models No Experts Required

This is hilarious as I have said for the past 2 years we need role models and today I had some fun on twitter asking which PHR members of the ONC use? Anybody up for discussion there? If they are so good, then why doesn't anybody in positions...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2011 10:40 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, Cell phone, Education, Congress, Personal Health Records, HHS, Obama, information, Computer, role models, Goober, tech denial, health literacy, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

What’s Happening at ONC REC Centers and HIE Initiative Centers-Connecting, Licensing, Training and Getting A Little Cozy?

It has taken a little while to get started and now we have some information making to the news today relative to the funding for the Regional Extension Centers from the National ONC group. These are groups that are not part of the government but...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2011 5:10 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EHR, HHS, Heatlh IT, Doctors, HITECH, ONC, Regional Extension Centers, REC

Dow Jones Files Lawsuit Against HHS To Overturn Ruling To Keep Medicare Physician Compensation Confidential In the False Name of Transparency-Distraction is More Like It

This is the biggest filing to create nothing more than a huge distraction and source of disruption that I have seen this year. Again, like so many other items we see in the news today, with the general consumer having no idea how data and mathematics...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2011 10:38 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, medicare, Lawsuit, HHS, AMA, Doctors, Algorithms, Media, American Medical Association, Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones

Insurers Made $450 Million with Interest Income by Holding Medicare Funds for Around 46 Days Before Releasing Payment

One more finding from the Office of the Inspector General on how profits are being made and the 2 sides here conflict as far as if this would actually show a savings for Medicare if the time were slimmed down. The irritation I think is more of the...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2011 8:43 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, EMR, medicare, EHR, Claims, HHS, CMS, Non Profit, Algorithms, incentives, Wellpoint, Contracts, healthcare reform, Meaningful Use, shareholders, OIG, Office of the Inspector General

Regional Extension Center (REC) Working in Florida-What the Centers Are Doing to Help Physicians With Electronic Medical Records

Part of the program t to help physicians convert to electronic medical records was the establishment of Regional Extension Centers across the US to give doctors a helping hand. They come in different shapes and sizes and some services are free and...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2011 1:40 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, EHR, HHS, Heatlh IT, Doctors, HITECH, ONC, Regional Extension Centers, REC

HHS Announces Healthy Living Challenge Contest for Innovation-Why Not See Which Programs Could Best Collaborate For Awards

As I read here these are efforts that have are currently working and in effect and are working to help educate and fight the war on obesity and chronic disease so why not see how the entrants can collaborate with each other and bring a little bit more...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2011 7:29 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, HHS, Heatlhcare, obesity, Chronic disease, healthy living, results, community, Innovation Awards

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