Category: General Interest
New Study Looks At Online Usage for Healthcare Activities
DOC Report Finds Researching Health Plans, Practitioners and Medical Conditions Online Common The Department of Commerce has released a new report looking at how we use the Internet. The report, Exploring the Digital Nation: America’s Emerging Online Experience, is a follow-up to the DOC’s 2011 report on home Internet usage. For the report researchers at the [...]
This Week’s Highlights on HealthcareNOWradio.com
Rediscover Radio this Summer on HealthcareNOWradio.com HealthcareNOWradio.com is an Internet radio station operated by HITECH Answers. Tune in this summer when we will have new programming mixed with the best of our hit shows every weekday from 2 – 5 pm ET. They are replayed at 10pm – 1am ET and again at 6am – 9am. New [...]
July Health IT Conferences and Events
Upcoming Health IT Conferences There are plenty of health IT conferences, conventions, symposiums and forums coming up this summer. You can check out our Health IT Events Calendar for the latest information. Here are some highlighted events, in the month of July, that may be destinations of interest. NACCHO Annual 2013 Date: July 10-11, Dallas [...]
Latest Provider Updates from CMS
CMS Important Dates and Timelines The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will be a busy place this summer. Here’s a rundown of important updates and deadlines. Updated End-to-End Testing Checklists CMS and contractor National Government Services (NGS) have updated end-to-end testing checklists to incorporate comments from providers, payers, and vendors. The checklists were [...]
CMS Accepting Suggestions for Potential PQRS Measures through July 1
Encourages Providers to Submit PQRS Measures to Boost Program Participation CMS will accept quality measure suggestions for potential inclusion in the proposed set of quality measures in the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) for future rule-making years. Deadline for submitting suggestions is July 1, CMS is seeking a quality set of measures that are outcome-based [...]
June Health IT Conferences and Events
Upcoming Health IT Conferences There are plenty of health IT conferences, conventions, symposiums and forums coming up this summer. You can check out our Health IT Events Calendar for the latest information. Here are some highlighted events, in the month of June, that may be destinations of interest. 9th Annual Government Health IT Conference & Exhibition Date: [...]
What’s Your Exit Strategy?
Ryan Ricks, DataSourceMD Follow him on Twitter @ryan_ricks One of the first questions pundits ask any time the U.S. gets embroiled in an international conflict is whether or not the current administration has an exit strategy. It is a valid question. Exit strategies are plans for withdrawing from an engagement without losing or compromising gains [...]
It’s Official – Senate Confirms Marilyn Tavenner As CMS Administrator
Tavenner First Permanent CMS Administrator Since 2006 After a brief bump in the road to confirmation Marilyn Tavenner was voted in as yesterday as the first permanent CMS Administrator since 2006. Tavenner was appointed to serve as Acting Administrator in December of 2011 when Dr. Donald Berwick stepped down. The 91-7 Senate vote reflects the bipartisan support for [...]
Industry Behavior Needs to Change in Standardizing HIPAA Transactions
Compliance – Not Just a Legal Term, It Actually Makes Good Business Sense COMMENTARY By Stanley Nachimson, Nachimson Advisors I have always considered myself a very close follower of the rules – whether I agree with them or not, I tend to stick very closely to them. And when I was at CMS working on the HIPAA [...]
EHR Dissatisfaction: A tech or people problem?
By Kimberly Martini Division vice president, AMN Healthcare A percolating problem is beginning to boil over: doctors and nurses really don’t like their new electronic health records systems. And, as EHR implementations increase ahead of government deadlines for incentive dollars, dissatisfaction among clinicians is growing. The problem might be that EHR implementation is treated as [...]
Providers working towards HIE and interoperability face the challenge of bringing connectivity to scale to take advantage of the data being generated by EHR adoption. This paper seeks to demonstrate that connectivity at scale can be accomplished. 
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