Government & Policy
Experts driving next-gen healthcare in America will meet in the Nation's Capital next week. Here's a look at the technologies, policies and progress they'll be talking about.
While criminals tap into traditional skills to thieve tremendous sums from the vulnerable medical ecosystem, by using big data and analytics, healthcare agencies can now reverse the pay-and-chase investigative process to better detect and fight fraud.
The Beacon Communities proved that organizations can advocate changes to how healthcare is paid for by working with payers and providers, while improving quality and safety at the same time. "These were the pillars of the Beacon Community activities, and they taught us," National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, MD, said. "They showed what we needed to do."
IT decisions made today will affect future initiatives and health insurance exchanges' ability to keep pace with healthcare reform.
There are buzz phrases, and then there are buzz phrases. And if there's one phrase that has permeated the healthcare sector more thoroughly than all the others, it's probably "accountable care." But what exactly does it mean? Or, more to the point for healthcare providers, how do you know when you're actually providing it?
Marilyn Tavenner's confirmation as official administrator of CMS immediately drew positive reactions from nearly every corner of the industry and government, as several healthcare stakeholders reacted to the 91-7 landslide Senate vote that took place late Wednesday. Tavenner is the first administrator in nine years to receive Senate confirmation.
Ed Ricks, CIO of Beaufort Memorial Hospital in South Carolina, discusses the impact of health reform on health IT with Healthcare IT News Associate Editor Erin McCann.
Saying that the proposed legislation would address "the failure of DoD and VA to develop a single unified medical record," one of the bill's backers explains that it would require VA and DoD to prove they are implementing a plan for that single medical record.
Members of Congress are lauding a bipartisan bill that limits funding for an integrated electronic health record system between VA and DoD and requires aggressive progress updates from both agencies, which have, in recent months, come under fire for the dilatory pace at which they're moving forward with the iEHR.
Has OMB lost its way toward the ambitious, if not sprawling, datacenter consolidation and Cloud-First initiatives?