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
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
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
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
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
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
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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5 Essentials to Reduce Healthcare Data Breaches
According to the 2014 Healthcare Breach Report from Bitglass, the total number of healthcare data breaches per year has remained fairly constant for the past three years—averaging about 200 breaches per year. About 6x as many credit card numbers as medical records are stolen each year. Healthcare data breaches are a big deal for healthcare consumers, the cost of breaking the rules is steep: Up to $50,000 per HIPAA violation, or up to $1,500,000 per calendar year per identical violation. In one
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Intermountain & Healthbox to Launch New Healthcare Innovation Model
Intermountain Healthcare and Healthbox have announced the launch of their unique healthcare innovation and venture model that harnesses internal creativity and external disruption. While the physical structure for this endeavor is being developed in Salt Lake City adjacent to the system’s flagship medical center, the Innovation at Intermountain initiative is already stimulating collaboration between inventors, entrepreneurs and healthcare industry experts alike to improve quality and service
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Less Than 17% of Hospitals Meet Meaningful Use Stage 2
Less than 17 percent of hospitals have demonstrated Meaningful Use Stage 2 requirements, according to the latest CMS data. As of September 30, less than 38 percent of eligible hospitals (EHs) and critical access hospitals (CAHs) have met either Stage of Meaningful Use in 2014. CMS has paid out more than $25 billion incentive payments to eligible hospitals and professionals participating in the meaningful use program.
The disappointing meaningful use data numbers reflects how hospitals are
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