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U.S. to dole out $1.2 billion for health records technology
The first-wave of funding under the $36 billion stimulus package was unveiled last week. The Obama administration will dole out $1.2 billion in federal grants to help doctors and hospitals adopt electronic health records and develop the networks that will link them all together. Vice President Joe Biden announced that about half the grant money would help establish 70 technology-extension centers and the remainder would be used for state initiatives aimed at creating or expanding health information exchanges. [Read More]
HHS Puts More Teeth Into HIPAA Regulations
Here's a nice summary by my colleague Dom Nicastro on the Department of Health and Human Services' interim final rule on breach notification and the acceptable methods for covered entities and business associates to encrypt and destroy patient records to prevent breaches of protected health information. For example, HHS added encryption layers to specify the technologies and methods that render PHI unusable, unreadable, or indecipherable. [Read More]
Ten steps to better healthcare
Atul Gawande, Donald Berwick, Elliott Fisher, and Mark McClellan pulled lessons from 10 regions—out of 74—that boast per capita Medicare costs that are low or markedly declining in rank and where federal quality measures are above average for this New York Times commentary. One of the lessons learned came from physicians and hospital leaders in Cedar Rapids, IA, where they adopted electronic systems to improve communication among physicians after they determined that 52,000 CAT scans were ordered for a community of 300,000 people in just one year. Cedar Rapid's rate of CAT scans was actually better than the national average, which is about 62 million CAT scans for 300 million people annually. [Read More] |
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Tech Headlines
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Latest Meaningful Use Matrix Reinforces HIPAA Compliance, CPOE
Lisa Eramo, for HealthLeaders Media - August 20, 2009
3M releases stethoscope with Bluetooth capability
Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal - August 19, 2009
Caritas set to sell part of lab work
The Boston Globe - August 18, 2009
Blumenthal: States are 'ground zero' for heath info exchange
Government Health IT - August 18, 2009 |
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Webcasts
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On Demand: Service Lines Strategies Workshop 2009: Gastroenterology
On Demand: Advanced Service Line Marketing: New Orthopedics Growth Strategies
On Demand: Service Line Strategies Workshop 2009: Spine Care
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Hang On
Get ready for the failure of the HIT stimulus dream, episode of care contracting, the end of easy credit, and a public plan. [Read More]
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Making Wellness Work
Wellness and weight loss programs aren't major revenue generators, but healthcare reformers know they cannot effectively control costs without focusing more on prevention. [Read More]
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Audio Feature
HL 09: Design for Digital Care: Greg Walton, chief information officer at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, CA, shares strategies CIOs can use to survive the recession while designing for digital care. For example, organizations should factor in the amount of electricity the hospital of the future will need, as well as, the amount of heat all that electricity will generate. [Listen Now]
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