Fierce Health IT
Nov,08,2012
by: Dan Bowman
Feedback continues to pour in from health IT groups and leaders in the wake of this week's election results. Speaking at Wednesday's Health IT Policy Committee meeting, National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari said the reelection of President Obama, in conjunction with the relative status quo nature of the House and Senate election results, gives the nation "the chance to continue to make strides, continue the essential thrust of the policies and approaches" pertaining to health IT, Government Health IT reports. "It also affirms our responsibility to do the peoples' work, to come together, Republicans and Democrats, to do the peoples' work," Mostashari said. "Progress has always been through fits and starts. It has not always been a straight line, a smooth path."
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Modern Healthcare.com
Healthcare industry leaders react to Obama's re-election
Nov,07,2012
by: Modern Healthcare
Modern Healthcare reporters are tracking healthcare leaders' reaction to President Barack Obama's re-election and what the election means for the healthcare industry, which finally has certainty that the bulk of the Patient and Protection and Affordable Care Act will be implemented yet little clue how the president and a still-divided Congress will treat healthcare programs in their quest to control federal spending. Modern Healthcare will continue to update this page throughout the week.
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Healthcare Info Security
How Will Election Affect HITECH?
Nov,08,2012
by:Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
The re-election of President Obama makes it a safe bet that healthcare reform, as well as the HITECH Act's electronic health record incentive program, will proceed as planned. In the weeks leading up to election, eight GOP legislators raised questions about the EHR incentive program, expressing concerns ranging from whether the program lacked tough standards for "meaningful" interoperability and data exchange to whether EHRs enable billing fraud. Four Republican Congressmen even called for a temporary halt of the HITECH Act EHR incentive program
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Three sure bets: What Obama’s re-election means for pharma manufacturers
Nov, 09, 2012
by: Jon Smith
Now that the presidential election is over, we can better predict the administration’s policies for the next four years. Right now, a few things are certain:
- The sun will still rise in the east and set in the west.
- We will still have to file our taxes.
- Changes for life sciences manufacturers are still going to occur.
The reelection of President Obama has maintained the status quo with regard to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). That is, the uncertainty about the potential overturning of the act has been taken out of the equation. The PPACA is here to stay. What remains to be seen, however, is how much change manufacturers can expect to occur. Three questions come to mind
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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 Uptown Business Partners. 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.
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