Twitter #saveAHRQ Hashtag Highlights
Following up and continuing Dr. Hersh’s In Defense of AHRQ: A Key Component of Healthcare Delivery Science conversation to save AHRQ from being defunded. The…
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Meet the New CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt
Earlier this year, Andy Slavitt was named Acting Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. As Acting Administrator, Andy oversees programs that provide access to health care for 140 million Americans, including Medicaid, Medicare, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Health Insurance Marketplace.
Stories Behind the Walking Gallery
By Joy Rios, Health IT Consultant at Ask Joy Health IT Consulting Twitter: @askjoyrios HIMSS, just like a multitude of other healthcare events, is a…
Online PQRS/CQM Project Manager Course
If you’re a regular HITECH Answers reader you’re no doubt familiar with Joy Rios. Joy writes for us regularly and is a SME on meaningful use, PQRS and CQM programs. Joy will be instructing an upcoming online course on PQRS/CQM Project Management.
Doctors Say Fitness Trackers, Health Apps Can Boost Care
That phone app keeping track of your exercise and meals might keep you out of the hospital one day. Why give your doctors permission to…
Verizon’s $1M Powerful Answers Award Winners
By Adria Tomaszewski – Four great ideas were named first place winners of the Verizon Powerful Answers Award, a year-long global challenge to discover and help bring to market technology-based solutions with the potential to change our world.
Health IT Issues that Deserve a Second Read – January
One of the ways that HITECH Answers is different from other media sites is the sense of community. The thought leaders in our community are…
A CDRH Priority: Clinical Trials in the US
By Owen Faris & Jeffrey Shuren – At the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), clinical trials are the foundation for our decisions to approve the most important medical devices—products that have the potential to save or sustain life, but that also present the greatest risk to patients.
Their Claim to Fame – So-Called HIPAA Compliance Experts and Tools
By Andrew Hicks – Have you noticed how many vendors and software solutions are out there claiming they can make you HIPAA-compliant? Well, at the end of the day that’s simply not possible because only you can make your organization HIPAA-compliant.