By Adam Lokeh & Kathy Lindstrom – When the first U.S. Ebola patient was admitted to a Dallas hospital in the summer of 2014, the ensuing media firestorm scrutinized nearly every aspect of the U.S. healthcare system’s readiness to deal with an epidemic that had already left thousands dead and dying overseas.
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By Richard Kronick – Over the past several years, hospitals, physicians, and the Federal Government have made it a priority to reduce hospital readmission rates for Medicare patients. While still at an early stage, strategies put into place as part of the Affordable Care Act, such as evidence-based safe care transition practices, are showing good results.
CMS) is pleased to announce that the submission deadlines for the PQRS reporting methods listed here have been extended. All other submission timeframes for other PQRS reporting methods remain the same.
The following is email communication from CMS. If you are an eligible professional participating in the Medicare or Medicaid EHR Incentive Program and are planning…
Who doesn’t like a good list? Weather you are on it, know someone on it, or aspire to be on it, you always want to…
By Matt Fisher – Advisory Opinion 15-02, issued by the Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) for the Department of Health and Human Services on February 13, 2015 offers some, albeit minimal, relief for providers excluded from participation on Medicare and other federal healthcare programs.
By Catherine Costa – Matching EHRs does not involve just matching technology performance; it also involves the data quality, process proficiency and policy restrictions (federal, state and organizational).
By Edmund Billings, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Medsphere Systems Corporation Interoperability is the current health IT buzzword because it’s the essential ingredient in creating a…
On February 3, ONC released the Advance Interoperable Health Information Technology Services to Support Health Information Exchange Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), one of the three FOAs.