Featured Report:Small businesses signing up despite online SHOP enrollment delay

Small businesses signing up despite online SHOP enrollment delay, but CMS official offers no numbers

Modern Healthcare.com Dec,11,2013 by:+Virgil Dickson The federal insurance exchange's one-year delay in online enrollment for the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) is not stopping small employers from getting coverage for their employees, Gary Cohen, director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at the CMS told lawmakers Wednesday. But he did not provide any data on how many companies have signed their employees up for coverage. Read More

FDA Commissioner Notes Importance of Evidence in Mobile Health

iHealthBeat Dec,12,2013 by:+Staff During the mHealth Summit in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said that mobile health products acting as medical devices need to be regulated and approved based on scientific evidence and data, FierceHealthIT reports (Gold, FierceHealthIT, 12/11). Background In September, FDA issued final guidance for mobile health applications. The guidance said FDA will focus oversight on apps that: Read More

6 regulatory and procedural hurdles for multistate telemedicine

6 regulatory and procedural hurdles for multistate telemedicine

MobiHealthNews Dec,12,2013 by:+Jonah Comstock For the most part, the laws that govern the practice of medicine in the United States are state laws. And a 1980 Federal statute says jurisdiction of those laws is based on the patient's location, not the doctor's. 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.