Provide Feedback on Proposed Changes to the Promoting Interoperability Programs
On April 23, 2019, CMS issued the FY 2020 Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long-term Acute Care Hospital Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule.
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The Rising Tide of Payer Requests for Medical Records: How to Shore Up Your Defense
By Greg Ford – Recently, MRO began its 2019 PHI Disclosure Management Webinar Series to healthcare professionals across the country about the rising tide of payer requests for medical records.
Consumer-friendly Medicare Advantage Plans Could be Creating the Blueprint for the Future of Health Insurance
By Jeff Carroll – Driven by a seemingly ever-expanding list of potential and innovative benefits such as at-home meal delivery and home-air cleaning, Medicare Advantage plans are pointing the way to a more consumer-centric approach to health insurance….
Enhancing the Use of Evidence with Interoperable Clinical Decision Support
By Edwin Lomotan MD – Today’s medical discoveries and technological advancements suggest we are approaching an exciting new era of patient care. Central to this vision is the successful—and seamless—implementation of health information technologies…
CMS Seeks Public Input on Patients over Paperwork Initiative
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a Request for Information seeking new ideas from the public on how to continue the progress of the Patients over Paperwork initiative.
AMA: Health IT Proposals Must Do More for Patient Privacy
The AMA has submitted comprehensive comments to the ONC in response to the sweeping set of proposed changes to health IT certification & implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act & to CMS in response to its proposal on patient access and interoperability.
Poor patient matching is holding healthcare back – the time has come to work together to fix it
By Andy Aroditis – Inaccurate patient identification is not only a major impediment to interoperability and patient safety, but a massive burden financially—costing the U.S. healthcare system over $6 billion annually.
Know Your Risks: HIPAA Basics
By Matt Fisher – The HHS Office for Civil Rights announced another monetary penalty and settlement for the failure of an entity to fully or competently comply with HIPAA requirements. More particularly, the entity in question offers yet another example of the absence of a risk analysis.
Sorting out AI, ML, DL, and NLP
This is our ongoing reporting on how AI is being integrated into healthcare technology. We are seeking out the thought leaders and innovations that are moving the needle forward which include Infinx, Optum, Belong.life, HEALTH[at]SCALE, & AI Med.