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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes

 Tom Sullivan May 17, 2013
EHR, OMB, Cloud-First and FDCCI all under the gun ... This week in Government Health IT.
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HHS puts a cool $1 billion toward Innovation Awards

 Bernie Monegain May 16, 2013
The awards are meant to fund projects to improve care quality and reduce costs for patients and taxpayers.
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Tavenner confirmation triggers applause from industry

 Tom Sullivan May 16, 2013
Healthcare associations and organizations said her career experience and progress as acting administrator of CMS make Marilyn Tavenner a strong leader to drive the policy changes in Obamacare.
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Medicare Strike Force nails 89 fraudsters

 Anthony Brino May 16, 2013
Suspected scheme leader already bought Lamborghinis, a Ferrari and a Bentley before the the DOJ and HHS cracked down on him and 88 other alleged criminals.
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Florida boosts fraud prevention in public assistance programs

 Anthony Brino May 15, 2013
Florida has some of the highest public program fraud rates in the nation, and it's also the first state to adopt a front-end fraud prevention technology for social and health programs, with a pilot in greater Orlando.
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eHealthInsurance seeks HIX enrollment partnerships with states

 Anthony Brino May 15, 2013
The private online HIX is set to partner with federal exchanges to bring consumers another enrollment channel, and the company says its also offering states a free interface to create more ladders into the insurance pool.
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Texas legislature expands e-check-ins

 Anthony Brino May 14, 2013
Six years after Texas hospitals were given the ability to verify patient identity with a driver's license electronic strip, a bill passed by the state House and Senate would expand the practice to all providers.
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CMS won't fine hospitals in states slow to expand Medicaid

 Kaiser Health News www.kaiserhealthnews.org May 14, 2013
On Monday the Obama administration said it won't penalize states that have yet to expand coverage by targeting them for reduced Medicaid funding for the next two years.
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OHN's 12 health IT best practices, part 10: Credentialing and privileging

 Erin Davis May 13, 2013
When timing, policy, and people align, great things can happen.
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OHN's 12 health IT best practices, part 10: Credentialing and privileging

 Greg Billings May 13, 2013
When timing, policy, and people align, great things can happen.
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Health plans prepare edge servers for HIXs

 Anthony Brino May 10, 2013
Along with several consumer-facing IT tasks, insurers selling in exchanges have to provide fairly granular data to CMS using edge servers for the risk adjustment and reinsurance programs.
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HIX, Medicaid expansion offer Veterans new options

 Kaiser Health News www.kaiserhealthnews.org May 08, 2013
Many former service members have access to health care through the VA, private insurance or other programs. But having so many choices can also lead to fragmented care.
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ATA: The year ahead for telemedicine

 Edward Brown, MD May 08, 2013
The organization's new president, Edward Brown, MD, looks at the coming year and sees "great things" for the technologies, including "telemedicine everywhere."
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Structural changes causing lower health spending growth, studies find

 Kaiser Health News www.kaiserhealthnews.org May 07, 2013
Slowdown in cost growth may be due more to structural changes in the health care system than to the lagging economy.
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HIX call centers to create 9,000 jobs

 Kaiser Health News www.kaiserhealthnews.org May 06, 2013
Vangent, which recently got a $530 million contract to run the centers, will spread the jobs over 14 states.
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ICD-10 legislation has two bad ideas for the price of one

 Carl Natale May 03, 2013
I'm not a fan of Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas. His bill to prevent the federal government from mandating ICD-10 implementation is poorly conceived.
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Archimedes, HHS align to speed HIT development via analytics

 Bernie Monegain May 02, 2013
By providing free access to synthetic claims data, the organizations hope to offer developers a means for assessing their products.
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes

 Tom Sullivan May 02, 2013
This week in Government Health IT: Reports expose state and local governments as ill-prepared, whether that be for Big Data or cyber-attacks. Also, think tanks talk patient-centered care for cost-savings.
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How to assess ICD-10 vendors' capabilities

 Carl Natale May 01, 2013
No one is going to reach ICD-10 compliance without healthcare vendors. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sent out a list of questions that can help healthcare organizations assess vendor's capabilities:
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Brookings framework aims to improve care and bend cost curve

 Stephanie Bouchard April 30, 2013
On the heels of the Bipartisan Policy Center's report calling for patient-centered care, Brooking Institute presents a plan to enhance care while reducing costs.
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