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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aims to boost the effectiveness of Medicare's fee-for-service program by making it easier for consumers to choose the hospitals they use based on the quality and cost of the services they offer.
CMS Web site will enable providers who have been approved for meeting meaningful use requirements to see their incentive payment status.
CMS will add patient safety measures to its Hospital Compare Web site and assess how well consumers understand the information on the site.
Royal Philips Electronics has announced a new service that provides Web-based remote monitoring follow-up services for patients with pacemakers. The new service, which was made available to cardiology practices in beta in August, is the first large-scale service of its kind in the United States.
The Rural Nebraska Healthcare Network (RNHN), a consortium of nine rural hospitals and related clinics in western Nebraska, launched construction of an $18M fiber optic medical network that aims at improving care throughout the Nebraska panhandle.
The top two managers of the Connect exchange gateway are leaving the pioneering federal health information exchange (HIE) program as it sets new directions to advance the adoption of health information exchange for meaningful use.
Top of mind for healthcare organizations aiming to achieve meaningful use is quality reporting, according to a new survey from healthcare consulting firm Beacon Partners.
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded nearly $8 million for existing Community Health Center Cooperative Agreements, which will provide additional technical assistance and encourage the use of health IT for the organizations that support community health centers.
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) has reached Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) scale. It is the first hospital outside of the United States to achieve the Stage 7 designation, and the only hospital in Asia to do so.
Federal health information exchange software program expected to be used to drive simple HIE between healthcare providers.