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Medical certification boards help drive critical mass of health IT
Date: Aug 10, 2010 Continuing on the theme of Monday’s blog on driving critical mass, two significant medical certification boards - the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) - have announced their intention to make health IT deployment a standard in their assessment and certification of physician competency.
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ONC, CMS handholding physicians
Date: Aug 05, 2010 The final rule on the meaningful use of EHRs may have been released three weeks ago, but the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid are not idly standing by.
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Glaser offers solid advice
Date: Jul 27, 2010 Suffice to say, when John Glaser speaks, the healthcare industry should listen. Even as Glaser moves from the healthcare provider and policy areas of the industry to the vendor side, he remains a respected authority on healthcare IT.
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Payers may add meaningful use criteria to physician contracts
Date: Jul 08, 2010 They say as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services goes, so goes the rest of the payer industry. CMS is close to releasing the final meaningful use criteria. There are rumblings out in the marketplace that commercial payers are putting meaningful use criteria in their physician contracts.
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Better late than never: CMS launches EHR web site
Date: Jun 29, 2010 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently launched an official web site for its EHR incentive programs. It's a great idea, but it should have been launched soon after the programs were announced.
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Aligning payment with quality
Date: Jun 28, 2010 The concept of linking payment to higher quality, more efficient healthcare may finally be turning the corner. The success of this payment model requires buy-in from payers and the application of the model across all providers.
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Commercial payers in Ohio asked to incentivize physicians
Date: Jun 09, 2010 Ohio wants its commercial payers to incentivize physicians to adopt EHRs in the same way that CMS is incentivizing physicians through the federal stimulus programs. It makes sense.
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What needs to be done in tandem with EHR adoption
Date: Jun 08, 2010 In an opinion piece in the Baltimore Sun last week, Ritu Agarwal related her personal experiences about the problems with paper-based patient records and in a very convincing way made a case for EHR adoption.
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Tracking health IT incentive payments
Date: May 19, 2010 CMS announced it will spend $34 million to have Northrop Grumman track health IT incentive payments. It seems as if the last several months millions of dollars have been pouring out of HHS. For those who are opposed to all this spending, this announcement may seem like the federal government is pouring more money into a bottomless pit.
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Provider perceptions of ARRA, meaningful use are improving
Date: Apr 14, 2010 Billians HealthData and Porter Research conducted two surveys providing a snapshot of provider perceptions of ARRA and meaningful use.
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