Featured Report: Anti-Obamacare States Leave 5.2 Million Without Health Coverage

Anti-Obamacare States Leave 5.2 Million Without Health Coverage

Health Data Management Oct,18,2013 by:+Michelle Fay Cortez (Bloomberg) -- About 5.2 million Americans will be left without health coverage because of the decision by 26 U.S. states to reject expanded Medicaid insurance programs for the poor with money provided under Obamacare. Read More

House Lawmakers Introduce Mobile Health Apps Regulation Bill

iHealthBeat Oct,23,2013 by:+Staff On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduced a bill that would clarify regulations for mobile medical applications, electronic health record systems and other health IT technologies, FierceMobileHealthcare reports. The bill comes one month after FDA issued final guidance for mobile medical apps (Slabodkin, FierceMobileHealthcare, 10/22). Read More

VA mHealth pilot runs into scheduling conflicts

Fierce Mobile Healthcare Oct,17,2013 by:+ Greg Slabodkin A U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) mHealth pilot has run into problems with its ability to efficiently schedule appointments. The VA Mobile Health Veteran Appointment Request Pilot is an attempt to provide more than 600 Veterans with the ability to request primary care and mental health care appointments. However, the Appointment Request App does not work with scheduling software across VA medical centers and does not operate within the VA's varying business processes, officials said. Read More

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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