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Hospital CFO Faces 5 Years for $800k Meaningful Use Fraud

by HITC Staff 11/18/2014 Leave a Comment

Joe White, the former CFO of Texas-based Shelby Regional Medical Center has pleaded guilty to meaningful use fraud and aggravated identity. White falsely attested to meaningful use by using another person’s name and information without that individual’s consent or authorization. The false attestation resulted in CMS paying Shelby Regional $785,655 in January 2013. Medicaid and Medicare EHR incentive programs paid hospitals operated Dr. Mahmood, including Shelby Regional $16,794,462.66 for fiscal
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EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup Forms Partnership with HIMSS, IHE USA

by HITC Staff 11/17/2014 Leave a Comment

EHR HIE Interoperability Workgroup

HIMSS, IHE USA and the EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup announce plan to streamline and strengthen how electronic health records and health information exchanges share patient data.  Health information technology customers expect products to work efficiently and consistently - whether it’s a Wi-Fi connection for a computer or the ability to securely share health data across computer systems, states or regions.    Building on its current effort to connect electronic health records (EHRs)
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HITLAB Announces 5 HITLAB World Cup Finalists for 2014

by HITC Staff 11/14/2014 Leave a Comment

HITLAB World Cup Finalists

  HITLAB a healthcare innovation and teaching lab, is pleased to invite the following teams to compete at the live HITLAB World Cup finals during its inaugural HITLAB Innovators Summit on December 1st at Columbia University's Low Library. 50 teams from India, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uzbekistan submitted truly innovative solutions to address global health issues.  Each entry was carefully reviewed for its potential impact on
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Meaningful Use Audits Could Return $33M in Incentive Payments

by HITC Staff 11/13/2014 Leave a Comment

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Meaningful Use audits could recover $33M in EHR incentives, according to data from the HHS published in a recent Health Security Solutions infographic below. Although the precise reason for failure is not included in the dataset, there is reason to believe from strong anecdotal evidence that failure to conduct an adequate risk analysis is the most common reason entities fail their MU audits.  
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AMA Policy Calls for Removal of Meaningful Use Penalties

by HITC Staff 11/12/2014 Leave a Comment

AMA Pushes for 2 Year 'Grace Period' for ICD-10 Coding Errors by Physicians

The American Medical Association (AMA) approved a new policy urging the calling for Meaningful Use penalties to be halted. The AMA has joined other healthcare leaders and policymakers in urging CMS to to add more flexibility to the Meaningful Use program and shorten the reporting period to help physicians avoid penalties. According to new attestation numbers, only 2 percent of physicians have successfully demonstrated MU Stage 2 requirements.  "The AMA has been calling for policymakers to
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3 Finalists Announced in Chicago Open Innovation Challenge

by HITC Staff 11/12/2014 Leave a Comment

Chicago Open Innovation Challenge

The American Heart Association today announced the top three finalists for the inaugural Chicago Open Innovation Challenge focused on discussing innovative ways to accelerate science and to better understand how to treat heart disease and stroke. Finalists were chosen after raising more than $33k in crowdfunding on MedStartr from patients, doctors, nurses, hospital leaders, professors, and concerned citizens. The three finalists will present their projects in person and compete for grants
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TigerText Integrates With MobileIron to Enhance Secure Messaging

by HITC Staff 11/12/2014 Leave a Comment

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Secure messaging provider TigerText today announced an integration partnership with mobile device management provider,MobileIron. As part of MobileIron's AppConnect Ecosystem, IT departments can now instantly push the TigerText app to thousands of employees' devices and manage access using MobileIron's console, while end users can start securely texting in just a few easy steps. With hundreds of health systems using MobileIron to manage their employee's mobile apps and services, this
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Health IT in India: Providers Expected to Spend $1.1B in 2014

by HITC Staff 11/11/2014 Leave a Comment

Health IT in India_Report Finds Health IT Spending On Pace To Top $34.5B in 2014

Healthcare providers are expected to spend $1.1 billion dollars on health IT products and services in India, a five percent increase over 2013, according to Gartner. The report forecast includes health IT products and services spending by healthcare providers (includes hospitals and hospital systems, as well as ambulatory service and physicians' practices) on internal services, software, IT services, data center, devices and telecom services. Key Findings - IT Services, which includes
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China Center for mHealth Innovation Launches To Improve Community Health

by HITC Staff 11/11/2014 Leave a Comment

Health IT Market in China Expected to Reach $3.97B by 2020

Qualcomm® Wireless Reach™ and The George Institute for Global Health have announced their collaboration on the creation of the China Center for mHealth Innovation (CCmHI) to support the Central Government’s initiatives to improve community healthcare in China. CCmHI will help improve community healthcare in China by developing mHealth solutions, implementing clinical evaluations and contributing to strategies for the implementation and scale-up of effective and affordable mHealth
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CDISC and HIMSS Collaborate To Enable HIT Interoperability

by HITC Staff 11/10/2014 Leave a Comment

CDISC and HIMSS Public Health & HIE Toolkit HIMSS

CDISC and HIMSS collaborate to foster the adoption of standards to enable the interoperability of health IT systems. Recognizing the importance of and need for effective reuse of data in electronic health records (EHRs) for research purposes, the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) and HIMSS extend their existing and long-standing relationship and, in collaboration with Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) USA, work together to foster the adoption of standards to
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