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The Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General is recommending that the federal government crack down on physicians who have incorrectly coded their Medicare claims for the wrong place of service.
Orlando Health will implement a Web-based decision support checklist tool to assist physicians with diagnosis decisions.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is readying a set of electronic accounting and processing tools that will help authenticate, track and manage payments to healthcare providers participating in the federal meaningful use financial incentive program.
First meeting of the new national health information network governance workgroup is scheduled for Sept. 3.
A contract to National Government Services will support efforts to verify meaningful use, prepare payments and track them for accuracy.
In an effort to expand clinical informatics offerings, Royal Philips Electronics has entered into an agreement to acquire the business of CDP Medical Ltd, an Israel-based provider of picture archiving and communication systems.
An opt-in only policy on using EHRs could reduce the meaningful use of health data.
ONC has awarded $15 million in two new contracts for work on the Nationwide Health Information Network. The contracts, awarded to systems integrator Stanley Inc., follow another $6 million contract announced on Aug. 2.
Healthcare providers who already use electronic health records urged a federal health IT advisory panel last week to add more goals for improving patient care coordination into the meaningful use financial incentive plan.
"Trends in technology are changing the employment landscape," said Terry Erdle, senior vice president, skills certification of CompTIA at Breakaway 2010, the premier event for IT companies in North America. That means IT workers will need to have different and more advanced skills.