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CMS Has $1 Billion in Grants to Encourage Innovation

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is making about $1 billion in grants available in a second round of funding under the Affordable Care Act to support innovative ways to improve health care outcomes.

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CMS Releases Hospital Price Ranges of 100 Common Treatments

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Hospitals
AMA Report: EHRs in Exam Rooms Need Not be Disruptive

Use of computers in an examination room clearly affects a clinical encounter, but it does not inevitably disrupt or undermine patient-physician communication, according to a new report from the American Medical Association.

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AMA Board to Members: Skipping ICD-10 for ICD-11 Not Recommended

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Consumer Health
Hacker Gets Patient Credit Cards from North Carolina Providers

A hacker accessed personal and credit card information for patients of at least two health care organizations in North Carolina, coming in through the facilities’ Web sites built by the same vendor, E-dreamz Inc. in Charlotte.

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PHI Breach #3 for Indiana University

Consumer Health

Data Security
200 Million Rows of Data and Counting

At the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics, the former cost-modeling effort was a bit of a crapshoot when it came to accuracy.

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Free Software to Aid Analysis of Medicare Claims Data

Consumer Health

Decision Support
Nurse Carts Becoming More Sophisticated in Capabilities and Use

Claude Parnell wants to know why it is that people can track a $5 pair of socks at every stopping point between Amazon.com and their house, but most hospitals can't track medications between the pharmacy department and the bedside -even those that cost $10,000 or more per dose.

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EHR Boosts Care Coordination

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Medication Management
Analysis: Most ER Visits from Privately Insured are Avoidable

A Truven Health Analytics study of more than 6.5 million emergency department visits of privately insured patients finds only 29 percent of them required immediate attention.

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CMS to Use Data to Find the Medically Vulnerable in an Emergency

Payers

Consumer Health

Data Entry Error Leads to Data Breach at LSU 03:59PM ET

Consumer Groups, EHR Vendors Talk Back to GOP Senators 03:57PM ET

Healthland Acquisition Targets the Continuum of Care 03:47PM ET

Do You Know a ‘Health I.T. Young Blood’ ? – Contest Underway 11:01AM ET

AHA to Senators: EHR Concerns Understandable, but Don’t Pause Meaningful Use 04:18PM ET

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HDM Announces Second Annual Health I.T. Young Bloods Contest

Entries are now being accepted for the second annual “Health I.T. Young Bloods” contest sponsored by Health Data Management. The contest recognizes the technology accomplishments of clinicians, administrators and I.T. staff in the health care industry.

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Innovation

Marshfield Snags Million Hearts Award for Mobile App

Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation in Wisconsin has won the Million Hearts Risk Check Challenge for building a free mobile app for consumers to self-assess their risk of a heart attack.

Regulation

Rule Imposes Medical Loss Ratio on Medicare Advantage and Drug Programs

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a proposed rule to implement medical loss ratio requirements for the Medicare Advantage Program (Part C) and the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program (Part D).

Data Exchange

New Hampshire Gets Help Building State HIE

The New Hampshire Health Information Organization, created by the legislature to develop a statewide health information exchange, has contracted for help.