NQF to HHS: Better align Merit-Based Incentive Payment System with other...
The National Quality Forum has published its guidance for the new Merit-Based Incentive Payment System. NQF's Measure Applications Partnership examined some five-dozen MIPS performance measures,...
View ArticleNew York docs moving to e-prescribing quickly as they aim to comply with...
Physicians are embracing electronic prescribing more rapidly than ever before, according to new data from Surescripts – especially in New York.In the Empire State, more than 48,000 providers have...
View ArticleTheranos results differed from Quest, LabCorp enough to impact care...
A new study found that cholesterol tests performed by the startup Theranos were divergent enough from those done by more established laboratories that they could affect physicians' care...
View ArticleClinical decision support malfunctions are widespread and persistent, AMIA says
Clinical decision support misfires are commonplace but often hard to detect, according to a close examination of CDS systems at Brigham and Women's hospital in Boston published in the most recent...
View ArticleLeapfrog: Hospital software often falls short in catching unsafe prescriptions
Medical errors are estimated to be the third-highest cause of death in the country. Experts and patient safety advocates are trying to change that. But at least one of the tools that’s been considered...
View ArticleHealthgrades gives 466 hospitals Patient Safety Excellence Awards for 2016
Healthgrades has named 466 hospitals across the nation as recipients of its Patient Safety Excellence Award for 2016. These hospitals rank in the top 10 percent of all hospitals evaluated for their...
View ArticleDoD gives Cerner EHR implementation a name: MHS Genesis
The Military Health System's massive EHR modernization project has a new name – MHS Genesis – and will begin in earnest at the end of this year, U.S. Department of Defense officials said."The meaning...
View ArticleFTC launches online tool to give privacy, safety guidance for mobile app...
The Federal Trade Commission, in partnership with the Office of National Coordinator for Health IT, the HHS Office for Civil Rights and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, released an online tool...
View ArticleGeisinger CEO David Feinberg, MD, on patient satisfaction, population health,...
In his first year at the helm of Geisinger Health System, David Feinberg, MD, has continued to hone the longtime population health leader's intense focus on evidence-based care and improved patient...
View ArticleTheranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes could face 2 year federal ban, Wall Street...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has warned Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes that the company could face serious sanctions – including the closure of its main laboratory and a two-year...
View ArticleMACRA-economics 101: Prepare today for tomorrow's outcomes
Accountable CareElectronic Health RecordsMeaningful UsePolicy and LegislationQuality and SafetyTogether, MIPS and APMs establish a new framework that streamlines existing quality reporting programs...
View ArticleDocs in value-based models more likely to use EHRs for improved care processes
Care coordination, quality measurement, patient engagement and population health management strategies are routinely used by physicians with electronic health records who participate in accountable...
View ArticleReport: Theranos being investigated by Securities and Exchange Commission
Theranos, the embattled blood testing startup, is now under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California,...
View ArticleMount Sinai signs on with OpenNotes, gives patients access to their medical...
ClinicalElectronic Health RecordsPatient EngagementPopulation HealthQuality and SafetyThe health system joins Geisinger, Kaiser Permanente, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, others in offering...
View ArticleIntermountain, Stanford forge clinical genomics and precision medicine...
AnalyticsClinicalDecision SupportPopulation HealthQuality and SafetyResearchers aim to develop new technologies to solve pressing issues in healthcare.Bernie Monegain Intermountain, Stanford forge...
View ArticleLeapfrog hospital grades point to grim reality on patient safety front
Quality and SafetyIndependent analysis shows that deaths remain high, and not even hospitals with 'A' Leapfrog designation are totally safe.Bernie MonegainHospital quality watchdog Leapfrog is out with...
View ArticleIBM's Truven names 15 top health systems
AnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceClinicalQuality and SafetyWorkforceThe analytics firm dove deep into the data to make its picks. Bernie MonegainTruven Health Analytics prides itself on, well, analyzing...
View ArticleAdobe integrates e-signatures across Document Cloud to digitize form completion
Cloud ComputingEnterprise Content ManagementQuality and Safety'A healthcare organization can do the whole patient onboarding process without having to print a document.'Bill SiwickiDigital document...
View ArticlePopulation health management demands an effective set of measures
AnalyticsClinicalElectronic Health RecordsPopulation HealthQuality and SafetyWithout population health measurement, there can be no population health management, a Georgetown pop health expert...
View ArticleMACRA proposed rule published by HHS, streamlining federal programs including...
Accountable CareElectronic Health RecordsMeaningful UsePolicy and LegislationQuality and SafetyThe new Advancing Care Information program would replace MU for Medicare physicians, aiming for 'simpler,...
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