Performance Analytics: Next Generation Healthcare Dashboards... Now
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MoreSen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has reached agreement with sponsors of the proposed Wired for Health Care Quality Act that could result in the long-stalled health care information technology bill moving through the Senate. The agreement also would substantially change the HIPAA privacy rule.
Heritage Health Systems Texas Management Inc., which operates Medicare HMO plans covering 265,000 beneficiaries, has licensed software to assess the appropriateness of care.
Washington-based Revolution Health will host on its consumer-oriented health information Web site the personalized cancer clinical trial matching and referral service of EmergingMed, New York.
A survey in April of provider organizations, insurers and transactions processing vendors shows an industry woefully unprepared for the May 23 compliance date for the National Provider Identifier.
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights has released updated statistics showing how it handles complaints of violations of the HIPAA privacy rule.
Recommendations of two industry work groups to develop consensus on the definitions and uses of specific health care information technology terms likely will be made public the week of May 19.
The American Medical Association is calling on Congress to require the Department of Health and Human Services to complete all national technical standards to support electronic prescribing by the end of 2009.
The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded grants to enable six additional organizations to participate in trial implementations of the national health information network.