Policy & Legislation

 
Hospital groups unhappy with fiscal cliff legislation
January 2, 2013 |
Kaiser Health News www.kaiserhealthnews.org

Hospitals would pick up nearly half the cost of stopping a 26.5 percent payment cut for Medicare physicians.
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4 health IT predictions for 2013
December 31, 2012 |
Benjamin Harris
From ACOs to meaningful use, with a couple stop in between, Ben Harris looks at the year ahead in healthcare information technology.
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7 ways meaningful use grew deeper roots in 2012
December 28, 2012 |
Mary Mosquera
The final rule for meaningful use stage 2 signaled to providers and health IT vendors the expectations for health information exchange and involving the patient to improve individual and population health.
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How Vermont is executing on its statewide HIE strategy
December 28, 2012 |
Patty Enrado
With 900 primary care docs signed up and eight of the state's qualified health centers operating EHRs, participating providers are already benefiting from Vermont's health information exchange.
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The state of HIE as 2012 comes to a close
December 21, 2012 |
Anthony Brino
Anthony Brino considers how health information exchange has evolved, where things stand today, and what the future might hold.
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4 predictions for HIPAA and ICD-10 in 2013
December 21, 2012 |
Sunny Singh
Edifecs CEO Sunny Singh explains the themes that are starting to manifest around federal healthcare mandates.
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CGI to build Vermont's HIX
December 20, 2012 |
Anthony Brino
After some starts and stops with Vermont Health Connect's IT plans, the state has finalized a contract with CGI to build the health insurance exchange state health officials hope to use as a stepping stone to a single payer system in 2017.
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Delaware first state-federal partnership HIX to get approval
December 20, 2012 |
Mary Mosquera
Minnesota and Rhode Island state-based health insurance exchanges also get the go-ahead, bringing the total to 12.
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ACA to trigger state and local HIT spending splurge
December 19, 2012 |
Diana Manos
The need for IT among public health departments at the state and local levels will drive $2.7 billion in new spending, according to a new report.
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OCR looking for 'high level of sensitivity' in data breaches
December 19, 2012 |
Erin McCann
Leon Rodriguez, director of the Office of Civil Rights, foreshadows what the office will be focusing on moving forward when it comes to HIPAA audits and enforcement.
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Q&A: On the inevitability of an HIX delay
December 17, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
Scott Lundstrom, group vice president of IDC Health Insights, says that states should expect the final health insurance exchange deadline to be pushed back and calls the federal-state model a “tiger trap.”
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States may move past politics on health insurance exchanges
December 17, 2012 |
Mary Mosquera
States must focus on practicalities of setting up health insurance exchanges, regardless of model, to be ready for enrollment in 10 months.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
December 1, 2011 |
Tom Sullivan
Soaring EHR adoption? How sequestration might impact health IT, slight attestation delay, and the VA's CIO on VLER momentum.
Some notes on HL7 Green CDA
November 29, 2011 |
Keith W. Boone
If you read John Halamka's blog discussing the November HIT Standards Committee meeting, he spent a good deal of time talking about Green CDA. Much of the discussion I'm seeing now has to do with the use of "Green CDA" on the wire.
What does new leadership at CMS mean for ICD-10 implementation?
November 28, 2011 |
Carl Natale
It's not a surprise that Donald M. Berwick is resigning as head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
HIMSS Leaders & Innovators excites C-suite execs
November 23, 2011 |
Mike Miliard
This past week I had the pleasure of traveling, along with MedTech Media Editorial Director Rich Pizzi, to Amelia Island, Fla. for the inaugural HIMSS Leaders & Innovators conference.
ICD-10 financial neutrality -- questions and comments
November 23, 2011 |
Steve Sisko
Considerations for payers and providers to help understand how ICD-10 will impact your healthcare organization.
Update from the Office of Standards & Interoperability at ONC
November 22, 2011 |
Douglas Fridsma, MD
To say the past few months have been a whirlwind of activity in the Office of Standards and Interoperability (OSI) would certainly be an understatement.
#OccupyHealthcare: Driving innovation through social media
November 17, 2011 |
Kelly Mehler
Within the past month, the Occupy Wall Street movement has moved to other political regimes. A new website, "OccupyHealthcare.net: Working together for change," has been drawing Americans' attention to the current healthcare system in this country, and how together we can address common concerns.
ONC hosts 2011 Annual Meeting
November 17, 2011 |
Jeff Rowe
ONC directors past and present will be leading off at the 2011 ONC Annual Meeting, which will be held tomorrow, November 17, in Washington, D.C.
Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
November 17, 2011 |
Tom Sullivan
ICD-10 as the unpopular guy at a party, achieving revenue neutrality during the conversion, golden rules of EHRs, consultancies dust off crystal balls for 2012, and ICD-11.
Supreme Court to hear healthcare law case
November 14, 2011 |
Stephanie Bouchard
The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will hear arguments in a case challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.
Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
November 10, 2011 |
Tom Sullivan
OCR audits, PHI for HIEs, HIX IT, the value of electronic medical data in the theater of war, and more.
HL7 HQMF Proof of Concept with hQuery
November 9, 2011 |
Keith W. Boone
I've been tweeking the HL7 eMeasures DSTU to support Query Health this week and last to support a declarative, implementation independent, standards-based expression of queries.