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The American Hospital Association (AHA) has offered an alternative approach for the definition of meaningful use, including the addition of 12 objectives to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) are encouraging public comment on the two regulations issued Dec. 30 that lay a foundation for meaningful use of certified EHR technology. The regulations will help implement the EHR incentive programs enacted under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have significantly revised their calculations of Medicare fee-for-service error rates in 2009.
Beatrice M. Heghmann, RN, has filed a class action lawsuit against Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, White House Office of Health Reform Director Nancy-Ann Deparle and Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Charlene Frizzera, alleging the Stimulus Act's health IT stipulations unconstitutionally violate the HIPAA privacy rule, Privacy Act and Federal Common Law.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has chosen 14 communities across the United States to participate in Care Transitions Project, the goal of which is to eliminate unnecessary hospital readmissions.
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Partial adoption of meaningful use of health IT should result in the receiving of partial fiscal incentives, wrote Ted Epperly, MD, board chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), in a letter to Charlene M. Frizzera, acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will distribute $45 million in grants to the State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP), which helps to provide community-based outreach and services to Medicare recipients.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has added new information to the Hospital Compare Web site that reports how frequently patients return to a hospital after being discharged, as a possible indicator of how well the facility did the first time around.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a slight increase in its 2010 fiscal year policies and payment rates for inpatient services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries by both acute-care hospitals and long-term care hospitals.
Several U.S. Representatives have responded to efforts by the American College of Radiology (ACR), American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), industry and patient groups by sending letters to Charlene Frizzera, Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) urging the agency to cover CT colonography (CTC) as a screening exam for colorectal cancer.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.