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By Sabriya Rice for Modern Healthcare The CMS floated a slate of tweaks to Medicare’s quality- and safety-reporting requirements in its sweeping proposed rule for 2016 inpatient hospital rates issued last week. Within the 1,500-page draft rule for the Hospital…
By iHealthBeat The ICD-10 implementation delay has negatively affected stakeholders’ progress preparing for the new code sets, according to a survey by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange, Healthcare IT News reports (McCann, Healthcare IT News, 4/6). Background U.S. health…
By NBC News More than 29 million U.S. health records were compromised in data breaches between 2010 and 2013, according to a study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The researchers from Kaiser Permanente…
By Philip Nathanson for VBP monitor The ethics of value-based purchasing (VBP) seem straightforward enough, don’t they? A purchaser of healthcare ties compensation to how providers perform on various measurable aspects of the triple aim. Who could have an ethical…
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By Dan Munro for Forbes Headlines abound for the idea that Uber will appear shortly to massively disrupt the healthcare industry in the same way it’s disrupted the taxi industry. Some boldly proclaim it’s not only here, but it’s here…
By Akanksha Jayanthi for Becker’s Health IT & CIO Review On March 20, CMS released its proposed rule for meaningful use stage 3, which is open for public comment through May 29. Here are nine things to know about stage…
By Elizabeth Snell for HealthIT Security Health data encryption is becoming an increasingly important issue, especially in the wake of large scale data breaches like Anthem, Inc. and Premera Blue Cross. The HIPAA Omnibus Rule improved… Read the entire article…
Anecdotal evidence suggests the coding shift might chase physicians into retirement. By Susan Morse for Healthcare Finance News If the rumors are true, ICD-10 is not going to solve the physician shortage. Too bad the hard evidence to suggest doctors…
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