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Kansas’ Coffey Health System Pays $250K to Settle False Claims Act Violations Around Meaningful Use

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

million in federal incentives that Coffey Health System received in 2012 and 2013 The amount paid is a portion of the $2.2

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SPM’s comments on important proposed CMS interoperability rules

Society for Participatory Medicine

These regulations are a big deal for participatory medicine – they’re the successor to the Meaningful Use rules that have governed patient access to their chart, among other things. The regulations do this by altering how a hospital gets paid based on how well their data moves out of their computers. .

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EHR Incentive Programs: Moving into the Next Stage

CMS.gov

Growing EHR Adoption and Meaningful Use. In January, we passed the 210,000 mark for the total number of providers, including nearly 200,000 eligible professionals, who received a Medicaid or Medicare incentive payment for successfully adopting, implementing, or upgrading or meeting meaningful use of EHR technology.

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Gearing up for Immunizations

Redox

Functionally, this type of tool is called an immunization registry , and, luckily for us, it has existed for decades. Perhaps more importantly, Meaningful Use spurred adoption on the provider side, requiring that providers use certified EHRs to receive Medicare and Medicaid funds. It also converged on HL7 2.5.1

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Regulation or Roadblock?

LinkousThink

Telemedicine is a tool that has been used to improve and extend healthcare for well over two decades. In 2012, ten million Americans will have benefitted from such remote health services as teleradiology, teleICU and remote vital sign monitoring.

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Healthcare 2020: Stop Treating Patients and Start Building Communities, Engaging Technology and Behavioural science

Lloyd Price

According to Asif Dhar MD, Chief Informatics Officer at Deloitte, spending on diabetes alone went up by $75 billion in the five years from 2012-2017. The suicide rate in the US has gone up 33 percent in less than 2 decades; we’re 3 times more likely to kill ourselves than we are to be killed.

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Advice to the new National Coordinator

Docnotes

Because the 2011 certification criteria and Stage 1 meaningful use requirements were too vague about the data that would be used to measure quality. I thought / hoped we solved this problem in 2012. Why was this? Unfortunately, we did not.

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