Med City News
Nov,22,2012
by: Arundhati Parmar
This infographic should be all physicians need to glance at to really welcome Health IT into their practices and as an overarching philosophy informing patient care. It comes courtesy of the Institute for Health Technology Transformation.
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HHS Puts Out Three Health Care Reform Rules
Nov,20,2012
by: Joseph Goedert
The Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services on Nov. 20 issued three proposed rules implementing major provisions of the Affordable Care Act that regulate insurers and bring new rights to consumers. The first rule proposes health insurance market reforms, including prohibiting denial of coverage because of a pre-existing condition or other factors. Insurance issuers could vary premiums--within specific limits--based only on age, tobacco use, family size and geography. Banned are other factors besides pre-existing conditions such as health status, claims history, duration of coverage, gender, occupation and small employer size and industry. States can enact stronger protections than the minimum standards under the federal rating rules.
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Health IT Group Unveils Framework To Bolster Patient Engagement
Nov,21,2012
by: Staff
On Monday, the National eHealth Collaborative released a Patient Engagement Framework to help health care providers develop health IT-enabled strategies to engage patients in their care, Clinical Innovation & Technology reports.
Details of the Framework
More than 150 stakeholders collaborated to create the guide (Gale, Clinical Innovation & Technology, 11/19). The framework aligns patient engagement strategies with current and future stages of the meaningful use program (Conn, Modern Healthcare, 11/19). Under the 2009 federal economic stimulus package, health care providers who demonstrate meaningful use of certified electronic health record systems can qualify for Medicaid and Medicare incentive payments.
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Fiscal, demographic realities make mHealth key to reducing care costs
Nov,19, 2012
by: Greg Slabodkin
While the presidential election season is over (thankfully), the issue of healthcare reform is not going away and remains a critical challenge for our nation. This year, U.S. healthcare expenditures will total a staggering $2.8 trillion--the equivalent of the world's fifth largest economy--and are estimated to reach $3.5 trillion by 2016. Cutting healthcare costs is imperative if America is to get a handle on its tremendous debt and out-of-control healthcare spending which currently stands at 17.9 percent of gross domestic product. Unless significant reforms are put in place, we will continue to see spiraling healthcare costs.
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Health and Wellness Seminars Coming January 2013
Chicagoland Healthcare Professionals:
Are you concerned about your practice can meet the Meaningful Use 1 and 2 regulations? Are your still struggling to understand and complete your EHR network? Do you know if you even qualify for the over $20 billion dollar EHR Incentive program funds? If answered YES to any of these questions.
Then make plans this January, 9, 2013 to attend the Health and Wellness Seminar hosted by Chicago's Business Partners of Uptown Chamber of Commerce . These seminars will explain in clear English not tech speak how to understand and complete an EHR for your practice how fund it and real solutions on how to find and IT partner help you complete your EHR and qualify for the EHR Incentive program. The first seminar Understanding EHR will take you step by step on how EHR works and how to create an EHR network. We will be teaching this totally interactive seminar and giving you real solutions to your EHR problem.
So make plans to attend this seminar and get the answers you need to help your practice meet all of the Meaningful Use Rules.
If you need answers to your Healthcare IT needs now visit our Healthcare Managed Services page at Wirehead Technology
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