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Healthland Acquisition Targets the Continuum of Care

Joseph Goedert | May 21
Healthland, a vendor of clinical and financial/administrative information systems for rural community and critical access hospitals, has acquired American HealthTech, which sells software to skilled nursing facilities and other post-acute care providers.
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Rule Sets Pre-existing Coverage Rates

Joseph Goedert | May 20
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued an interim final rule setting payment rates for treatment of patients enrolled in the federal government’s Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan authorized under the Affordable Care Act.
Consumer Health
Group Practices
Hospitals
Payers
Revenue Cycle & Payments
Policy & Regulation

CMS Has $1 Billion in Grants to Encourage Innovation

Joseph Goedert | May 15
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.
Group Practices
Hospitals
Consumer Health
Disease Management
Policy & Regulation
Revenue Cycle & Payments

NCQA Certifies First Wave of Medical Home ‘Content Experts’

Joseph Goedert | May 13
Health care accreditation firm NCQA announced in January 2013 a new program to credential patient-centered medical home content experts. Now, it has posted contact information for more than 100 credentialed experts in 29 states on a new Web site.
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Hospitals
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EHR Boosts Care Coordination

Gary Baldwin | May 10
To control costs, Gundersen Lutheran Health System targets a relatively small group of patients—that 1 to 2 percent of patients at risk for hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and other complications.
Disease Management
Group Practices
Hospitals
EHR

Premier Survey: I.T. Top Capital Investment for Hospitals

Joseph Goedert | May 03
In the Spring 2013 Economic Outlook from provider alliance Premier Inc. that included surveying 530 hospitals and health systems, 43 percent of respondents expect health information technology and telecommunications to be its largest capital investment during the next year.
Hospitals
Coding
EHR
Health Info Exchange
Revenue Cycle & Payments

How the 'Million Hearts' Program Improves Cardio Care

Joseph Goedert | May 02
A free Web seminar on May 7 will feature two provider organizations discussing how they are using health information technology under the federally sponsored Million Hearts program to help reduce patients’ blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
Decision Support
Disease Management
EHR
Group Practices
Health Info Exchange
Hospitals
Policy & Regulation

Biobank Program for Personalized Medicine Hits 25K Enrollees

Joseph Goedert | Apr 29
Twenty-five thousand individuals now have enrolled in the Mount Sinai Biobank Program of Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, the organization announced on April 29.
Data Repositories
Disease Management
Hospitals
EHR
Systems Integration

New Elsevier Content Covers Evidence-based Medicine

Joseph Goedert | Apr 26
Medical information content vendor Elsevier has published the first in a series of issue briefs examining the benefits and challenges of adopting evidence-based medicine.
Hospitals
Group Practices
Decision Support
Policy & Regulation
Consumer Health

AHRQ Seeks Solution to Sickle Cell Care Transitions

Joseph Goedert | Apr 26
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is in the early stages of developing software to improve transitions of care for adolescents and young adults with sickle cell disease, and seeks public comment.
Group Practices
Hospitals
Policy & Regulation
Disease Management
Health Info Exchange

Allscripts Doubles Down on Care Coordination

Joseph Goedert | Apr 25
Physician and hospital software vendor Allscripts has introduced new software to support the enhanced care coordination across provider settings required under accountable care organizations and other value-based treatment/payment programs.
Consumer Health
Disease Management
Health Info Exchange
EHR
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Revenue Cycle & Payments
Vendor News

New Federally Supported Networks to Aid in Comparative Treatment Research

Joseph Goedert | Apr 24
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, an independent not-for-profit organization created in the Affordable Care Act, has issued two funding announcements to establish the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network.
Disease Management
Consumer Health
Group Practices
Hospitals
Payers
Policy & Regulation

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

Joseph Goedert | Apr 22
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is adding a new routine for use of health information to eight “systems of records” or databases, to ease in identifying vulnerable individuals who may need health assistance during an emergency, such as a disaster.
Decision Support
Consumer Health
Disease Management
Group Practices
Hospitals
Health Info Exchange
Payers
Policy & Regulation

Study: Non-Adherence High for Osteoporosis Treatment Medications

Joseph Goedert | Apr 18
A study at Kaiser Permanente finds 29.5 percent of women prescribed bisphosphonates, a class of drugs to prevent loss of bone mass in patients with osteoporosis and similar bone diseases, failed to pick up their prescription.
Consumer Health
Disease Management
Group Practices
Hospitals
Medication Management

Feds Ask Again for Comments on HIT Ambulatory Workflow Issues

Joseph Goedert | Apr 16
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is again asking for public comments as it prepares a study to assess the relationship between health information technology implementation and health care workflows in six ambulatory practices becoming medical homes.
EHR
Health Info Exchange
Group Practices
Policy & Regulation
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