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Regulators Need to Pay More Attention to Long-term and Nursing Care

Healthcare IT Today

But these facilities are afterthoughts in our health care system, and were excluded in particular from the huge digitization of health care triggered in the United States by the 2009 HITECH act and 2010 Affordable Care Act. The next step would be to achieve real interoperability in health records, a still elusive goal.

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Modernizing Medicine To Pay $45 Million To Settle False Claims, Kickback Allegations

Healthcare IT Today

EHR vendor Modernizing Medicine has agreed to pay $45 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower suit alleging that the vendor engaged in varied kickback schemes as well as causing its provider customers to submit false claims. The lawsuit was filed in 2017 by law firms Phillips and Cohen LLP and Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC.

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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

2019: Year in Review It's been an eventful year for health IT. But at the tail end of the 'teens, we see a flowering of innovation that could only have been dreamed of in 2010. Experts from across the health IT field will share insights about everything from AI and cloud computing to telemedicine and population health.

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Elation Health Announces $50M Series D for Innovative Primary Care

Healthcare IT Today

Elation Health has invested significantly in technology tools that make it easy for clinicians to get credit for the relationship-driven care they provide to patients. For more information about Elation Health’s platform for primary care, visit elationhealth.com. About Elation Health.