As historical path to payment and delivery transformation culminates, post-Supreme Court landscape quickly moves beyond Medicare Shared Savings Now that the healthcare industry can work with clarity on care coordination strategies and programs, a new expansion of ACO models, trends in patient behavior...
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Spending by federal government agencies on health IT systems and services will grow from $4.5 billion in 2011 to $6.5 billion in 2016, a new report projects. At an anticipated compound annual growth rate of 7.5 percent during the five-year forecast period, total federal health IT spending will increase...
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If you were preoccupied last week with the seasonal imperative to give gifts, you may have missed an announcement, put out by the Office of the National Coordinator, that its gifts come with strings attached. ONC announced in the Federal Register that it would create databases to track, monitor and....
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An independent analysis of the first round of Medicare incentives paid to medical providers for using electronic health records indicates that about half of the payments went to providers for upgrading existing EHRs. The findings, by iWatch News, an arm of the nonprofit, nonpartisan Center for Public...
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Fri, Oct 14 2011
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Federal financial incentives that are driving billions of dollars of health IT investment could be threatened if deficit-reduction efforts cut Medicare and Medicaid, the Health Information Management Systems Society warns. The threat looms from multiple fronts, declares HIMSS, a nonprofit industry advocacy...
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Fri, Aug 26 2011
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Hundreds of hospitals and health-care providers have received about $400 million in Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments this year as part of a government strategy designed to encourage use of electronic health records, a federal health official says. Medicare payments have gone to 100 hospitals...
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Physician assistants deserve incentives -- at least when it comes to buying electronic health records. That's the message from the American Academy of Physician Assistants, which is praising a bill introduced Monday in the House that calls for extending Medicaid incentive payments to physician assistants...
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Uncertainty around the deadline for meeting the next stage of electronic health record usability measures notwithstanding, medical professionals should move quickly to meet current EHR "meaningful use" standards, according to a new report. When to "attest" to meeting those standards...
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Fri, Jul 22 2011
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A bill introduced in Congress last week would increase the amount of payments to multicampus hospitals that meet federal meaningful-use standards for implementing electronic health records. Hospitals with multiple campuses now receive the same incentive payments as single-campus hospitals. Multicampus...
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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 we are today. This goes to show how fast things...
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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 of government in authority talk about theirs...
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I just made this post yesterday on the same topic, those folks need to get some Algo Men before opening their mouths as this big retailer has already ran theirs, so it makes you wonder is everyone except politicians in the know here with business models and algorithmic methodologies ? Didn’t take...
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Thu, Nov 4 2010
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Ok so this is the side that maybe nobody thinks about . There has been talk about “starting over” but when it comes to data systems today and getting operations in place, does anybody give this any thought? The technology specialists do and have to create reports and devise budgets...
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