Government & Policy
Even as Oklahoma and Kansas recently said ‘no thanks’ to federal money aimed at helping them with the health information technology platform needed to create health insurance exchanges, the Departments of Health and Human Services and Treasury last week awarded $185M more to drive the creation of the exchanges across the country.
GAO is urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to beef up its approach to physician quality reporting, recommending CMS be more methodical in order to make the reports more reliable.
Taconic IPA's Dr. John Blair discusses putting in place medical home, care coordination, and a strong hands-on patient care manager to transform health care, in the second of a two-part series.
Whether it's a designated day or a full week, without updated software from vendors, providers and payers are limited in the testing they can conduct.
Arien Malec, who coordinated the development of the Direct Project exchange protocols, is leaving the government's Office of the National Coordinator to return to the private sector.
Malec coordinated the communities that developed the Direct protocols for simple exchange and are fine-tuning exchange standards to be able to share information.
Rep. Renee Ellmers sent a letter Thursday to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, in which she requested that HHS consider a study of health IT's benefits and cost effectiveness, with a focus on gauging medical error rates.
The State of Kansas is returning its "Early Innovator" grant that was distributed by HHS to aid in the design and implementation of the IT infrastructure needed to launch its state health insurance exchange.
Taconic IPA's Dr. John Blair discusses putting in place the technical tools and practice procedures as the first step toward more effective and coordinated patient care, in the first of a two-part series.
Even as health IT providers and vendors are immersed in meaningful use, the federal government has its eye on ways to export the concept overseas.