Report: More research needed for Medicaid to use health IT
"Medicaid can have an influential role in the adoption" of health IT and health information exchanges, according to the new report from the Center for Health Policy and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. It also states that health IT could increase the efficiency and effectiveness of Medicaid programs, which the states operate with substantial federal support.
La. begins linking rural hospitals
Delhi Hospital is the first in a 44-member rural hospital coalition to transmit patient data to a statewide health information exchange.
(Posted May 14, 2008)
Government Health IT presents Rick Friedman, director of the division of state systems for the Center for Medicaid and State Operations with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in this recent eSeminar regarding how the federal Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services is partnering with state Medicaid and health and human services officials to bring Medicaid into the digital age. Paul McCloskey, Government Health IT editor, moderates.
