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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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2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service improper payment rate is lowest since 2010

CMS.gov

2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service improper payment rate is lowest since 2010. 2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service improper payment rate is lowest since 2010 Significant progress in saving $4.59B in estimated improper payments for the Medicare Fee-For-Service program. Skilled nursing facility corrective actions resulted in a $1.04

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Where Will the Healthcare Facility of the Future Look Like?

Healthcare IT Today

They’ll be staffed by nurses and MAs managed by remote doctors. In the next 10 years, we’ll see these options begin to emerge, but the rising Alpha and Beta generations (born 2010 to 2039) could receive routine care in the metaverse. Miles Romney, CTO at eVisit. A decade from now, we’ll see more, and smaller, clinics.

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Weekender 6/7/19

HIStalk Weekender

The six former National Coordinators express their support for the proposed interoperability rules of ONC/CMS. Vendor members of the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association raise “significant concerns” about proposed federal rules covering interoperability. Best Reader Comments. Maybe hospital chains start buying SNF and LTC chains.

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mHealth Insights live from #HIMSS18

mHealth Insight

Developing an interoperable infrastructure that supports these use cases is a process that has already begun. Evaluate how new approaches to improving interoperability between stakeholders to support improved approaches in caring for complex patients. Speakers include: Dan Chavez, Executive Director, San Diego Health Connect.

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Weekender 8/10/18

HIStalk Weekender

This is the great golden spike moment for interoperability – except with the Carequality Railroad traversing the entire continent to connect CommonWell San Francisco trolley network. Theresa Brown, RN, PhD notes that doctors generally ignore those feelings as documented in the EHR’s nurse notes. Vaporware? ).

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

Health Populi

The research found that peoples’ exposure to clinician quality information doubled between 2010 and 2015, and more consumers sought quality metrics — albeit, with differences across sub-groups of people (e.g., In the article to which this assertion ties , Harris Meyer talks about the growing push for price regulation in the U.S.