Good News on Innovation and Health Care
By Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services A recent New York Times column, Obamacare’s Other Surprise, by Thomas L. Friedman echoes what we’ve been…
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New Report Shows Impact of ACA on Health Plan and Healthcare Providers
Projects Affordable Care Act Will Add Six Million Americans to Medicaid, 21 Million to Affordable Insurance Exchanges Truven Health Analytics, formerly the Healthcare business of…
HHS Releases New Data Sets at Health Datapalooza
New Data on Medicare Spending and EHR Adoption Health Datapalooza IV kicked off yesterday and with it came the release of new data from Health…
Mitochon free web-based EHR shuts down – the question is why?
COMMENTARY by Chandresh Shah ChandreshShah.com email: chandresh@chandreshshah.com Last month free web-based EHR software company Mitochon announced it was shutting down this month. Read here. I…
Can patient engagement be achieved from a clinician messaging system?
Robert Rowley, MD Twitter: @RRowleyMD For clinicians participating in the federal EHR Incentive Program (Meaningful Use), Stage 2 of Meaningful Use (MU2) is right around the corner…
HHS Seeks Input and Comments on HIPAA Audit Process
OCR Issues ICR on HIPAA Audit Program The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) enforces the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and oversees health…
Telehealth Policy & Reimbursement: What Providers Must Know
What Does It Take to Start a Telehealth Program? There has been a lot of attention on telehealth of late. The recent American Telemedicine Association…
Hard Drives and Disaster Recovery
Your Hard Drive is like a Credit Card Ryan Ricks, DataSourceMD Follow him on Twitter @ryan_ricks Hard drive failure is one of the leading causes…
Count Down to Health Datapalooza IV
The Liberation of Health Data and Health Datapalooza The Health Data Initiative (HDI) was launched in 2010 by the Department of Health & Human Services…