Dr. Edward Gold gets a reminder by computer when a patient missed a needed test or clinic visit. But that information stops when his patients visit a hospital or nursing home. Computers at Gold's clinic cannot talk to those on the outside. Not yet.
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If you don't like how things are going with health information technology, stick around. The rules will change.
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When it comes to the regulatory landscape involving healthcare IT, the terrain has become a little rocky of late. Based on the findings of Modern Healthcare's annual IT survey, leaders at provider organizations are just trying to steer a course through all the uncertainty. Still high on the agenda are the ongoing preparations to meet the next stages of meaningful use and readiness for whatever new deadlines are set for ICD-10 conversion
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HHS unveiled sample notices that health plans must send policyholders beginning this summer to explain how their premiums are spent and informing them when rebates are owed because too little was spent on healthcare services.
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The American Hospital Association and the Federation of American Hospitals say the CMS’ proposed changes on how officials define “uninsured” when computing Medicaid disproportionate-share hospital payments still need tweaking.
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The percentage of hospitals that use electronic health-record systems more than doubled from 2009 to 2011, according to the results of a new American Hospital Association survey that HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius touted at an event in Kansas City, Mo.
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A friend-of-the-court brief filed by interest groups representing virtually every hospital in America urges the U.S. Supreme Court to reject arguments by 26 states that the expanded Medicaid eligibility called for under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is unconstitutionally “coercive.”
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Health policy in this country lacks direction because of a shortage of decisive leadership in both the public and private healthcare sectors.
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