Featured Report: Everyone is jumping on the Obamacare marketing bandwagon - thank goodness

Everyone is jumping on the Obamacare marketing bandwagon - thank goodness

Med City News July,03,2013 by: Veronica Combs Last week MomsRising announced Wellness Wonder Teams whose mission is to get the word out about health insurance exchanges. This week Health and Human Services awarded $33 million in grant money to get more children enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP. Read More

ONC Finalizes Its Health I.T. Patient Safety Plan

Health Data Management July,02,2013 Joseph Goedert The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has released its final Health I.T. Patient Safety Plan, following issuance of a draft plan for public comment last December. The final plan has two core objectives: To use health I.T. to make care safer and to continuously improve the safety of I.T. "Achieving these objectives is a shared responsibility," the ONC report states. "No one entity or group can fully realize the potential of health I.T. to improve patient safety." Read Report

Hearing: Interoperability, regulations are main obstacles for mHealth developers

Fierce Mobile Healthcare July,01,2013 by:Greg Slabodkin The biggest challenges confronting mobile medical app entrepreneurs are interoperability and government regulations, according to witness testimony from four app developers at a June 27 hearing held by the House Small Business Subcommittee on Health and Technology. "Increased governmental and industrial support for start-up organizations and health care researchers like us is needed, as is increased federal support of interoperability standards that enable communication between different information technology systems," testified Sabrina Casucci, an entrepreneur and Ph.D candidate in industrial and systems engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo Read More

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EHR Incentive Program Healthcare Professionals Did You Know? Non-hospital-based physicians and other eligible professionals can obtain incentive payments of as much as $44,000 under Medicare or $63,750 under Medicaid. Under both Medicare and Medicaid, eligible hospitals may receive millions of dollars for implementing and meaningfully using certified EHR technology. About two-thirds (65 percent) of hospitals and 32 percent of office-based physicians plan to enroll in meaningful use programs by the end of 2012 in order to receive the maximum incentives, according to survey results announced Thursday morning. Fewer federal dollars will be available to hospitals and doctors that wait to adopt EHR technology, and failure to meaningfully use EHRs starting in 2015 will result in Medicare penalties. Watch this video about how to register for the EHR Incentive program. EHR Incentive Program Registration Do you need help with HIPAA and HITECH? Then download and Read our HIPAA Guide for for Doctors and Small Clinics that contains HIPAA security regulations and check lists that you can use to start your EMR network.

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