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ONC’s HTI-1 Places Undue Burdens on Healthcare Providers, Health IT Developers

Healthcare IT Today

Many of our concerns center on the proposed implementation timeframes associated with various concepts included in HTI-1, as well as ONC’s failure to sufficiently consider the burden compliance will place on provider organizations and health IT developers. This puts EHR vendors in the middle of data aggregation from multiple sources.

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

Healthcare IT Today

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. For example, in 2021 CareCloud Health agreed to pay $3.8

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Rural Health IT Workforce Program

Medicine and Technology

Want to improve health care in rural communities? Be a part of the Rural Health IT Workforce Program. Apply at Grants.gov by April 15.

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Patients and Industry: Starting Our New Life Together in 2023

Society for Participatory Medicine

Having sat in on some industry meetings between clinical research organizations and study sponsors, I am excited at the patient stakeholder group having equal representation and influence with the operationalization of drug development. What good is a walk test if a patient is disabled and unable to walk?

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What’s Next? The Future of Healthcare IT Social Media – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

Looking back to 2010, the health IT initiatives of that time consisted of getting up-to-speed as quickly as possible about Meaningful Use and helping to move health systems and clinical practices away from paper and analog processes to electronic and Internet-enabled technologies.

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Embracing and Prioritizing Cloud-Based Care in Rural Communities

Healthcare IT Today

Because providers can become accustomed to the workarounds required when using separate systems across their locations, they are often reluctant to replace them. However, they’ve inadvertently made systems that function but have not created systems to meet their organization’s needs.

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A new focus: How to become empowered patients

Meaningful HIT News

After years of doing this blog in fits and starts — particularly the two-year gap while I was essentially prohibited by a full-time employer from writing about health IT here or anywhere else but that company’s site — I have decided to refocus on healthcare consumers rather than industry insiders.