Aside from the current congressional logjam, gridlock or whatever your preferred metaphor may be, consider the fact that we are now embarking upon the general election season, which tends to add an additional layer of grandstanding and substantive paralysis to the usual fever dreams of the Potomac.
The public comment period on proposed rules for implementing MACRA closed Monday.
A new report by Paubox calls for healthcare IT leaders to dispose of outdated assumptions about email security and address the challenges of evolving cybersecurity threats.
This may sound cynical, but there are probably only two rational choices for clinicians going forward: become a salaried employee delivering clinical care or become a hospital-based clinician exempted from the madness.
If we in the patient community do not raise questions and objections to this critically important MACRA rule, you will definitely not believe what happens next.
Given the size of the document, reactions are trickling rather than flooding in, but sentiments are mixed. There's plenty of confusion, for sure.
CMS released a pre-publication version of the rule Thursday. The rule will take effect 30 days after it officially appears in the Federal Register, which is scheduled for Friday.
Break down the silos. Take control of your provider data.
The president of the Texas Medical Board said that it is "absolutely" legal for physicians to establish relationships with patients via telemedicine.
The letters, signed by 111 groups, rapped the Obama administration for sticking to what the signatories called "fundamental flaws" in Meaningful Use regulations that they believe are more about documentation than promoting interoperability of electronic health records.
Chilmark Research analyst Brian Murphy doesn't want HIPAA to die as much as he does the complex web of federal and state healthcare regulations for privacy and security, reimbursement, nurse staffing levels, telemedicine, physician credentialing and other issues.
Health data is very much on the mind of Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, according to an interview published over the weekend in the Washington Post.
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By 2020, electronic health records should support person-centric care delivery, according to an American Medical Informatics Association panel. The AMIA EHR-2020 Task Force has mapped out a strategy.
American healthcare reform is desperately needed. We’ve had massive changes in healthcare since the 1990s. Hospital admissions have decreased (average daily census decreased 31% from 1980 to 2010, while the US population increase 36%). Recent recent massive staff layoffs in leading medical centers and healthcare systems. Closure of many hospitals, especially rural hospitals. Hospital Outpatient revenues […]