Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today published the final rule that will assist states in building more affordable health insurance exchanges. Beginning in 2014, one stop marketplaces called Exchanges will be operational, enabling consumers and small business to select a private health insurance plan and offer the public the same kinds of insurance choices as members of Congress.
The exchanges will help level the playing field and drive down costs with health insurers
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Video:Dr. Farzad Mostashari Keynote Speech at HIMSS 2012
Great video of Dr. Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, gives a keynote speech at HIMSS 2012 in Las Vegas, NV.
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Infographic:The 20 Most Popular EMR Solutions
Infographic of the 20 most popular EMR solutions created by Capterra, Inc.
Very interesting infographic that was created by Capterra solutions from examining the EMR software companies listed in their EMR Software Directory. From there, Capterra narrowed down the list by looking at web data for each of the vendors, including Alexa rankings, Compete traffic, and Google searches. While none of these are perfect indicators of popularity (particularly for B2B websites), the data gave them a way of
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Meaningful Use Stage 2 Changes Bring Big Differences to Record Release
Guest post by Steve Emery, Director of Product Management at HealthPort
The Meaningful Use Stage 2 Notice of Proposed Rule Making is out and it would bring sweeping changes to how hospitals and eligible professionals release records and other information to patients.
Essentially, CMS is dropping three Stage 1 reporting criteria and replacing them with a core requirement for patient online access to medical records. CMS’s goal is to move the release of information (ROI) process from labor
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The Proposed Rule for Stage 2 Meaningful Use NPRM Now Available
The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for Stage 2 meaningful use was posted to the Office of the Federal Register today. The proposed rule outlines the next stage of meaningful use for the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs, which are administered by CMS.
CMS has developed a fact sheet to give providers an overview of the rule and how Stage 2 expands upon Stage 1 of meaningful use. The fact sheet can be found on the EHR Incentive Programs website
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Video:How DrFirst Helps Healthcare Stakeholders
DrFirst connects all the stakeholders of the healthcare industry including physicians, patients, hospitals, health plans, and EHR/EMR vendors through solutions that help doctors make more informed decisions that drive positive clinical outcomes for patients.
The following video provides more information on how DrFirst can help healthcare providers in a number of ways including:
E-prescribing
Meaningful Use Attest Easy
Free online EHR Advisor tool
Smooth data migration
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Infographic:Healthcare’s Data Conundrum
Infographic explores how healthcare's data conundrum can be used to make the capture, understanding, & utilization of data possible to improve patient care
With the electronic health record adoption rates rising and the push for a personalized and interactive approach to medicine becomes more prevalent, there is an opportunity for our healthcare system to transform from an inefficient machine into a well-oiled producer of actionable, meaningful information. And this opportunity begins at
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CMS Announces Re-Examination of Timeline for ICD-10 – Is the Pressure Off?
The following is a guest post from Doug Hires, Partner, Consulting & Advisory Services at Santa Rosa Consulting, Inc. on the possible ICD-10 timeline delay.
Many of you have likely read or heard this week that the acting CMS Administrator, Marilyn Tavenner, announced to the press following an AMA Advocacy Conference that CMS will "re-examine the timeframe" through a rulemaking process. She did not say when that rulemaking process will begin but said that CMS would send details about the
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Confused by EHRs, Meaningful Use, medication management, federal regulations, and other health IT topics?
Want more, positive clinical outcomes, greater information exchange, increased
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Guest Case Study: Solutions Healthcare Builds Agile, Highly Available Infrastructure with Xsigo
The following guest case study is written by By Jeff Bills, VP of Information Technology at Solutions Healthcare Management
Background
Solutions Healthcare provides IT operations for medical offices and clinics. Our firm now serves 600 physicians across eight states with services including billing, collections, medical records management, digital imaging, VDI, and VOIP. As a service business, we compete by delivering services that continuously exceed our customers’ expectations while
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