CMS wants to develop health insurance exchange verification data and services to support eligibility for employer-sponsored and qualified health plans.
Many states are using the health reform law as a tool they didn't have before to drive care delivery and payment changes. Here's a look at how two such states are proceeding.
David Bodycombe of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health on how health IT -- EHRs, predictive modeling, PHRs, genomic profiles -- are ushering in an era of greater individualization of care that will improve, among other things, treatment of patients with multi-morbidities.
While the Supreme Court weighs oral arguments about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), state health officials in Connecticut share their thinking about what will happen there after the decision. Hint: Everything is on the table, including a state-level individual mandate.
President Barack Obama and GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney will have to strike the fine balance of containing costs while deciding where they stand on Medicare expansion, as Tuesday's primary in Pennsylvania displays.
Americans' perception of the individual mandate remains the same. What has changed? The percentage of Republicans believing the justices will use legal analysis, rather than their own agendas, in the ruling.
The meaningful use Stage 2 NPRM suggests SMTP as the transaction technology to connect all EHRs -- a decision more political than tech-savvy -- but the standard introduces new security concerns, supports only push, and falls short of what many people consider necessary for health information exchange. But there's still time left in the public comments period.
A new report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services highlights the near-term cost benefits of the Affordable Care Act to American taxpayers.
Despite delays, and billing glitches, progress is being made on the conversion. And there are benefits to the HIPAA 5010 mandate that healthcare entities will reap once they comply.
In this session, we will look at modern and adaptable strategies to the retention lifecycle of information that frees healthcare providers from the complexities of retaining and accessing data for the long term, while radically lowering business risk.
Citrix is redefining IT for a new era in Healthcare. For the first time, you can watch a cardiologist who uses Citrix technology and see how Citrix empowers healthcare through virtual computing. See how easy it is to access clinical desktops from anywhere, securely order medications from any computer or device, access real-time info about patients in seconds, go mobile instantly with desktops that follow users, review real time ER caseloads & allocate resources remotely, enable HD face to face telemedicine, use Citrix HDX plug n play to support voice recognition devices to update patient records and secure patient health information (PHI) on devices.
Over 2,500 state and federal law enforcement officials have long relied on the Thomson Reuters CLEAR public-record databases and network analytics to fight fraud. These same resources can also be a powerful tool for healthcare fraud investigators. The discussion on this webinar will explore ways in which public records can be combined with other data-mining methods to improve the effectiveness of both provider and beneficiary investigations.
In this Web seminar, learn firsthand from five healthcare organizations how, after integrating Perceptive Software enterprise content management (ECM) products, they are realizing cost and time-saving benefits enterprise-wide. The customer panel will share lessons learned and best practices for deploying ECM technology with their business and health information systems.
The role of IT is becoming increasingly pivotal in how healthcare organizations deliver products and services. Healthcare providers must not only achieve HIPAA compliance and meaningful use while still providing world class care and services, they must also wrestle with how to reinvent themselves in order to deliver on accountable care in the near future.
Learn how you can deliver the future of healthcare...virtually anywhere.
The HITECH Act of 2009 accelerated the adoption and deployment of EHR/EMR systems. However, along with the many benefits, this trend also introduces greater risk of privacy and security breaches. The emerging rise of cloud-based healthcare services similarly brings many benefits but reduces visibility and control over sensitive data. Addressing these challenges requires continuous monitoring across data, systems, and applications in modern healthcare networks.
Transformative changes such as healthcare reform mandates, advanced stages of meaningful use criteria and conversion from ICD-9 to ICD-10 code sets require healthcare providers’ IT assets to be flexible, scalable and interoperable in order to respond. Learn how user virtualization provides the ability to react quickly while improving user experience and operational efficiency.
Records of events taking place in your environment are being logged right now into event logs and Syslog files across your servers, workstations and networking devices. This log data needs to be collected, stored, analyzed and monitored to meet and report on regulatory compliance standards such as FISMA or HIPAA.
The face of healthcare is transforming at a blistering pace. Simply staying abreast of the changes is a daunting task leaving little time for the innovation necessary to stay competitive in the marketplace. The future of the medical infrastructure lies in the power of IT convergence. The converged medical infrastructure integrates servers, storage, networking, management software, services, power and cooling into one flexible, modular, standards-based platform to give you the power to handle any workload, anywhere, anytime. Learn how to futureproof your medical information with the converged medical infrastructure.
This session will provide you with an overview of the broad HealthVault ecosystem, discuss how healthcare organizations can leverage it to better support their patients, and provide an update on how HealthVault is supporting the Office of the National Coordinator's (ONC's) Direct Project.
A decay in access to medical services for American adults could continue even if President Obama is re-elected in November, according to a recent Health Affairs study.
In March when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) extended the enforcement deadline for HIPAA 5010 compliance to July 1, it was an admission that the transition wasn't going well.
This Week in Government Health IT ... A look at health issues in this week's primary states, MU stage 2 needs more than SMTP, top 5 hurdles to meaningful use, and Big Data Week.
Todd Park (@todd_park), United States chief technology officer for the Obama Administration, engaged in a live Twitter chat as part of Big Data Week, a string of community-led events relating to big data. Here is a Twitter recap of the Q&A.
With five more states under his belt, GOP frontrunner tells supporters that when it comes to President Obama's health reform law, "we've already seen where this path leads."
When the Deartment of Health and Human Services (HHS) considered the impact of delaying ICD-10 implementation, I wonder if it considered that more time would give everyone more time to plan and attend ICD-10 conferences.
The April HIT Standards Committee included a comprehensive review of the Standards & Certification Criteria Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) by each workgroup/task force/power team during a 5 hour marathon session.
This Week in Government Health IT ... Big Data, the Boston Red Sox, AMA lobbyists' role in ICD-10 delay, and the 5 facets of HIT at greatest risk in SCOTUS ruling.
The proposed rule for Stage 2 Meaningful Use has a strong emphasis on patient engagement. This is certainly a good thing, and I am very glad to see the focus put on this area.