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Auditors evaluating the meaningful-use reports submitted by providers seeking incentive payments for their use of health information technology are utilizing risk-profiling to identify obvious targets, said Travis Broome, a CMS policy analyst.
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Healthcare leaders should foster a culture of privacy and security protection within their organizations or risk facing adverse consequences, according to Joy Pritts.
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The afflicted had their opportunity to confront their afflicters during a Q&A session with two top federal rulemakers for the EHR incentive-payment programs.
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Massachusetts on Tuesday launched a statewide health information exchange that will allow healthcare providers to share electronic health information as they seek to improve coordination of care, lower costs and increase patient safety.
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HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has put out a call for volunteers interested in serving on one of its Health IT Policy Committee and Health IT Standards Committee work groups.
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Want to know how many folks have enrolled in health information technology training programs at U.S. community colleges under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act?
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that Congress cannot unduly coerce states into expanding their Medicaid programs, causing healthcare legal experts to think it was only a matter of time before states started applying that reasoning to other aspects of the reform law they didn't like. The state...
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HHS, through its Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, has decided to punt on its previous drive to regulate the proposed nationwide health information network.
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Having failed to receive CMS approval to narrow Maine's Medicaid eligibility rules, state officials are asking a court to declare that the healthcare reform law's eligibility requirements can't be enforced against Maine because they were ruled unconstitutional.
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Digestion and some dyspepsia by health information technology users and leaders continued after three federal rules—running a combined 1,354 pages—were released by HHS late last month.
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