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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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Healthcare Roundup—Flu cases on the decline; CMS to overhaul Meaningful Use

FierceHealthIT

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the flu season has peaked; the Joint Commission releases its 2017 sentinel event data; plus more healthcare news from around the web.

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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

spent $327 billion on diabetes management in 2017, Dhar said. They should 1) empower proactive health and wellbeing management; 2) foster a sense of community and wellbeing; 3) be enabled by digital technology and behavioral science; 4) meaningfully use data to improve outcomes; 5) enable new, innovative ecosystems.

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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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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. How Will the Market Respond?

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Advice to the new National Coordinator

Docnotes

A focused “2015R2” certification regulation would therefore be an appropriate component of ONC’s fall work – so that something can be “shovel ready” for a new administration for ~ February release – with final rule in ~ April/May of 2017. The 2017 Spend Plan. Why was this?

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