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Not since 1965, with the advent Medicare, has the U.S. experienced such a tumultuous time in healthcare policy. It is both exciting and a bit frightening, to all involved.
Healthcare IT is not lacking innovation these days. It seems like everyday there’s a winner of a new app contest, or yet another challenge is launched. One recent announcement, though, stood out among the rest.
President Barack Obama and GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney will have to strike the fine balance of containing costs while deciding where they stand on Medicare expansion, as Tuesday's primary in Pennsylvania displays.
The National Quality Forum (NQF) approved for endorsement several sets of quality measures in April, addressing areas such as perinatal and renal care and how resources are put to use in care delivery.
Every week, it seems, the Department of Health and Human Services or a related federal agency kicks off a new developer contest or publicly declares another winner – largely in the spirit of engaging the American people by asking for their help in finding innovative new technologies.
The meaningful use Stage 2 NPRM suggests SMTP as the transaction technology to connect all EHRs -- a decision more political than tech-savvy -- but the standard introduces new security concerns, supports only push, and falls short of what many people consider necessary for health information exchange. But there's still time left in the public comments period.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Attorney General Eric Holder recently highlighted the Obama Administration's efforts to prevent Medicare fraud, through the Affordable Care Act and the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT).
The complete 1000 Genomes Project is now available on Amazon Web Services as a publicly available data set, the largest collection of human genetics available to researchers worldwide, free of charge.
Healthcare information technology, data mining and data analytics are driving rapid advances in personalized medicine across the country and around the world. The work being done today on this front is but a thin slice of what is yet to come, experts say, and many predict vast advances in the next four to five years.
Despite delays, and billing glitches, progress is being made on the conversion. And there are benefits to the HIPAA 5010 mandate that healthcare entities will reap once they comply.