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The American College of Cardiology, a 40,000-member nonprofit medical society, has issued a statement supporting the federal government's decision to delay Stage 2 meaningful use.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded a $78M contract to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to provide enterprise remote identity proofing and multi-factor authentication credential services.
Though most stakeholders are still drowning in the 455-page meaningful use Stage 2 proposed rule, issued Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), a few groups have stepped forward to weigh in.
After some stops and starts, at last the federal government has released the long-awaited proposal for Stage 2 of qualifying for the meaningful use of electronic health records incentives.
On the third day of the HIMSS12 conference in Las Vegas, Farzad Mostashari, MD, took to the stage in what ended up being a rousing address to a packed room of attendees. Addressing everything from the nation's progress in the past two years to the work still needing to be done, he touched on all aspects of what the industry had seen, is seeing, and will see in the years to come.
Here are seven key highlights from Mostashari's keynote speech.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska is challenging the state's decision to switch insurance companies for state employees to UnitedHealthcare - a decision worth $184 million annually.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has called on the Department of Health and Human Services to "quickly and decisively" set a compliance date for ICD-10.
Healthcare reform is by far the most dissected, discussed and debated topic in the medical industry. Federally mandated healthcare legislation, and the yet to be determined detailed fine print, influences every decision a hospital executive considers on a daily basis.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Thursday that consumers will soon begin receiving unprecedented information on the value of their health insurance coverage, and some will receive rebates from insurance companies that spend less than 80 percent of their premium dollars on healthcare.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Thursday that consumers will soon begin receiving unprecedented information on the value of their health insurance coverage, and some will receive rebates from insurance companies that spend less than 80 percent of their premium dollars on healthcare.