In comments filed on September 8th with CMS, the National Partnership for Women & Families commends proposed updates to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Part B, and particularly applauds CMS’ proposal to reimburse providers for high-quality, effective advance care planning.
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By John Halamka MD – Thinking about a recent New York Times article, I’ve put together a top 10 guide for IT leaders to avoid the decline into misery at work while keeping their livers intact.
WEDI announced the release of two new resources produced to ensure a smooth transition to ICD-10 including the ICD-10 State Workers’ Compensation Readiness List and the List of State Medicaid Sites with ICD-10 Information.
The Innovation Institute has announced that Dell Services, a division of Dell Inc., has agreed to become the founding health care information technology partner of the Institute’s Innovation Lab in Newport Beach, California.
ONC announced that two electronic health record (EHR) products, previously certified as products that may be used as part of the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs, had their certifications terminated.
By Steve Spearman – This past summer, the state of Colorado’s Medicaid program, the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF), accidentally sent letters containing PHI to the wrong addresses, affecting individuals from 1,069 households.
CMS has released the most recent numbers for the EHR Incentive programs. Here are some Program-to-date highlights from this latest CMS report – July.
Cerner’s bid for the DoD’s EHR contract has gone unchallenged with the protest period for competing bidders now past. A DoD spokeswoman confirmed no challenges have been filed, clearing the way for Cerner on the planned EHR deployment.
By Stephen Holloway – IBM’s new and significant investment play into healthcare (following acquisition of Phytel Inc. and Explorys Inc. in the last year), is based on expanding the capability of IBM’s artificial intelligence (AI) platform ”Watson” to drive new diagnostic software for medical applications.