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

Healthcare IT Today

The lawsuit was filed in 2017 by law firms Phillips and Cohen LLP and Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC. These financial arrangements caused healthcare providers to submit false reimbursement claims for pathology services, along with false claims for Meaningful Use incentives arising from the use of ModMed’s technology.

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Patients and Industry: Starting Our New Life Together in 2023

Society for Participatory Medicine

Now more than ever, thanks to the FDA taking the plunge with us, patients have proper validation to ensure that trial design has endpoints and outcomes with meaningful use. The FDA issued a series of four patient-focused drug development (PFDD) guidance documents which outline how patient co-design needs to successfully happen.

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Connected 'smart' communities will be a key part of 21st century healthcare

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As part of its National Health IT Week program, HIMSS presented a webinar this week exploring the advent of what it calls the "Smart Communities-Cities Movement." spent $327 billion on diabetes management in 2017, Dhar said. The total spending on addiction, and all its ancillary costs, is likely to exceed $740 billion.

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Three Big Questions for Stage 3 & Patient Engagement

Chilmark Research

For many, the delay of Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use program evoked a collective sigh of relief, providing a much-needed extra year to focus on the challenging requirements for patient engagement and interoperability. The final rule is expected to drop sometime in Q1-Q2 of 2015 – just one year away. How Will the Market Respond?

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All my HIMSS coverage in one place

Meaningful HIT News

Tavenner: 2014 is your last chance for a hardship exemption for Meaningful Use 2 (Feb. DeSalvo: True EHR interoperability – and a national HIE – is possible by 2017 (Feb. HIMSS crowd skeptical of promise for flexibility on MU2 hardship requests (Feb.

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Advice to the new National Coordinator

Docnotes

The health IT certification program is the core of ONC’s responsibility to the nation. As a product of ONC’s certification program, we now have health IT systems that do what their developers claim they do. The 2017 Spend Plan. Kill the health IT flag-waving. Certification. Yeh – crazy.

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