Kelly Mehler
This week on ICD10Watch.com, blogger Carl Natale reported that the American Medical Association (AMA) wants the ICD-10 implementation date delayed to Oct. 1, 2015.
At the Connecting Healthcare + Social Media Conference, held in New York, Chris Boyer, director of digital marketing and communications at Inova, explains how to measure the ROI of social media efforts. Here is a Twitter recap of the event.
A decay in access to medical services for American adults could continue even if President Obama is re-elected in November, according to a recent Health Affairs study.
President Obama has outlined a plan to do away with Medicare completely, according to Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) who appeared on NBC's Meet the Press on April 15. Bachmann didn't back up the claim with specifics, but in previous statements she has claimed to have heard Obama mutter under his breath on this subject at an off-the-record White House meeting.
The candidates are still going at it. For frontrunner Mitt Romney, the biggest challenge of the Republican presidential primaries seems to be the direct similarities between his own Massachusetts healthcare law, and the Affordable Care Act, spearheaded by President Obama.
In Friday's healthcare IT social media chat, sponsored by HL7 Standards, the question was proposed: If part or all of the ACA is struck down, what happens to ACOs? Here is a Twitter recap of the chatter.
On Tuesday, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., unveiled a new GOP budget plan, “The Path to Prosperity Budget.” With a YouTube video circulating, an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, and various on camera interviews, Republicans are calling the proposal the “real solution” to the debt crisis.
In conjunction with NPR news, Kaiser Health News reported this week that the state of Connecticut is divvying out a new plan to replace home nurses with hired home health aides, in order to administer medications for patients with chronic illnesses.
This week, President Obama released a $3.8 trillion budget plan that would construct $360 billion in savings from Medicare, Medicaid and other healthcare programs over a span of 10 years. The cuts are familiar to most, yet some democrats oppose numbers included in the proposal.
Maine Gov. Paul LePage considers reducing the number of people eligible for the state's MaineCare program by 65,000 in an effort to save $37 million.