How The ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Affects Health Care: Six Questions
Fiscal Cliff Impact on Health Care Mary Agnes Carey, Kaiser Health News The impending “fiscal cliff” is a package of automatic spending cuts and tax…
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New Report Looks At How mHealth Is Transforming Healthcare
mHealth in an mWorld The 4th annual mHealth Summit currently taking place in D.C. this week has placed health IT headlines news squarely on the…
Electronic Health Records and Natural Disasters
Electronic Health Records – Lessons Learned from Sandy In the aftermath of Super Storm Sandy that hit the east coast this past October, what have…
Four Top Trends That Will Shape Digital Health
Future of Digital Health Includes mHealth, Big Data Sean Chai, Director, Innovation Technology, Innovation and Advanced Technology at Kaiser Permanente This was a big year for digital…
Trust But Verify: Why CMS Got It Right On EHR Oversight
Little evidence of any fraud, waste, or abuse in the EHR incentive program By Dr. Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha Last week’s New York Times headline…
Health IT Business News Wrap-Up – December 2, 2012
MThis Week’s Health IT Business News A few weeks back our own Jim Tate wrote an EHR Swan Song to the demise of a small…
CMS Readies IT, Analytics for Waves of Health Reform Data
CMS Creates an Office of Information Products and Data Analysis Mary Mosquera Senior Editor, Government Health IT The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will have…
December HIT Policy and Standards Committee Meetings
HIT Meetings will be Virtual Only this Month The ONC HIT Policy Committee Meeting will be a virtual meeting only this December 5th from 10am…
New Report Calls for Greater Oversight of EHR Incentive Payments
OIG Finds Obstacles in Overseeing EHR Incentives Established in 1976, the Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) fights waste, fraud…