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Don't miss the 2013 Consumer Health IT Summit

Medicine and Technology

The Summit will feature: A summary of recent and upcoming policy and regulatory changes that are strengthening patients' rights and ability to access their health data electronically, including Meaningful Use and HITECH modifications to HIPAA.

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EHR Incentive Programs: Moving into the Next Stage

CMS.gov

Growing EHR Adoption and Meaningful Use. In January, we passed the 210,000 mark for the total number of providers, including nearly 200,000 eligible professionals, who received a Medicaid or Medicare incentive payment for successfully adopting, implementing, or upgrading or meeting meaningful use of EHR technology.

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Building the Future through CMS eHealth

CMS.gov

The process can sometimes seem chaotic, even to those of us who are intimately involved in effecting the outcome. CMS Launches eHealth. If you are at the HIMSS conference in New Orleans today, I hope you will stop by our CMS Town Hall (Session 81, 1:00-2:00 pm, New Orleans Theater C) to hear more about our eHealth initiatives.

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eHealth: Aligning Quality Measurement at CMS

CMS.gov

With the increase in adoption of EHRs, we are moving away from technology as an end goal and towards the use of technology as a key tool in health care quality improvement. How will this next phase improve health care and reduce the burden on providers? Achieves Electronic Data Reporting. Aligns of Quality Measurement.

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Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

Docnotes

The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) and 2-1-1 New York have received funding from the HHS Administration for Community Living to establish a trust framework and statewide governance structure to support collaboration and exchange of community information across existing networks and users. Service provider training and optimization.