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Last year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services provided grants to 500 Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) for a demonstration project to showcase how the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model can improve care and lower costs.
We're living in an iOS world nowadays, but sometimes, to look at them, it seems EHRs are stuck in a Windows '97 rut.
For a few years now, I’ve been thinking about the potential intersections of genetics/genomics/proteomics and connected health.
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).