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Jul 21 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Leaders from healthcare organizations and associations, lawyers, consultants, IT vendors, and a host of other experts are slogging their way through all 800-plus pages of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services final rule for the meaningful use of electronic health records

Jul 21 2010

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Health plan systems that score physicians on how carefully they control costs misclassify or are “woefully inaccurate” up to 66% of the time.

Jul 21 2010

AP News

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A project is beginning to test if patients fare better when given fast electronic access to more of their medical chart

Jul 21 2010

nextgov

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The Health and Human Services Department on Monday issued a request for information on constructing an online catalog of studies that compare the outcomes of medical treatments.

Jul 21 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

“Lean” is basically industry jargon used to describe lower-cost plans with high deductibles or that otherwise focus on covering catastrophic coverage, not day-to-day health-care needs

Jul 21 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The length of the average Medicare certified hospice stay in a nursing home has doubled—from 46 days to 93 days—during the last 10 years, according to researchers at Brown University

Jul 21 2010

The Hill

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U.S. Chamber to launch website for businesses to air health reform grievances

Jul 21 2010

Kaiser Health News

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There is optimism that the new health reform law will advance the effort to “eradicate” differences in how mental health treatment is covered by insurers

Jul 20 2010

InformationWeek

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

To qualify for the first wave of HITECH meaningful use incentives starting in 2011, hospitals have to meet 14 core requirements and eligible professionals — such as doctors and nurse practioners — must meet 15 core requirements.

Jul 20 2010

Wall Street Journal

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

In what may signal an important shift, some chief executives say they are ready to start spending the mountains of cash they have stockpiled over the past year

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