Here are updates being reported from selected State health information exchanges. Included news from Delaware Health Information Network, Health Access San Antonio, Greater Houston Healthconnect, and Coordinated Care Oklahoma. And check out upcoming events.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the 2017 CMS Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR) Implementation Guide (IG), Schematrons, and sample file.
Surveys have been completed, questions have been asked, and polls have been taken. Three companies sifted through all of the data and have created some informative reports about salaries, compensation, career motivation, and happiness in the health IT industry. Check out the results in these 2016 reports from Medscape, Medreps, and Greythorn.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it has selected nearly 200 physician group practices and 17 health insurance companies to participate in a care delivery model that supports and encourages higher quality and more coordinated cancer care.
ONC Challenges designed to foster private sector innovation to enable consumers and providers to easily and securely access and share electronic health information. Phase 2 remains open to all potential applicants with submissions due November 7, 2016.
Welcome to Talent Tuesday. Check back each week as we highlight job opportunities and tips from the healthcare IT recruitment specialists at Greythorn. Today’s opportunity is Sr. Epic Applications Systems Analyst.
Stay up to date on the latest and join the conversation with hashtags #Telehealth and #Telemedicine. Currently more and more hospitals are seeking to integrate telemedicine into their programs. Some are doing it well, while some seem to be jumping the gun and not getting it right.
At a hearing on MACRA yesterday by the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Acting CMS Administrator Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) said the agency may consider a delay in implementing MACRA, acknowledging that small and rural practices may struggle with the new legislation and its current January 1, 2017 start date.
The NRACC announced that Rural Health Clinics, Federally Qualified Health Centers, rural hospitals with less than 100 beds and independent practices may be eligible for free participation in the Medicare Shared Savings Program.