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HIT Newser: Prison time for HITECH fraud
By MICHELLE RONAN NOTEBOOM CVS Health acquires Target’s healthcare biz CVS Health will pay $1.9 billion to acquire Target’s healthcare businesses, including 1,600 pharmacies and 80 MinuteClinic health clinics. CVS Health also just opened its...
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Mon, Jun 22 2015 6:34 AM
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HIT Newser: Will Stage 3 Meaningful Use Be Delayed?
By MICHELLE RONAN NOTEBOOM CMS Releases Final Update to ACO Program CMS releases a final rule updating the Medicare Shared Savings Program, which includes a new higher-risk, higher-reward Track 3 option; streamlines data sharing between CMS and ACOs;...
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Mon, Jun 08 2015 8:42 AM
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The Land of Milk, Honey and Low-Priced Health Insurance
By DAVID DRANOVE and CRAIG GARTHWAITE Not long ago we received our first signs that all may not be well in the land of milk, honey, and low priced insurance, i.e. the ACA insurance exchanges. Many insurers, including some of the largest in each state...
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Thu, Jun 11 2015 7:45 AM
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What Went Wrong?
By ROB LAMBERTS, MD It’s been a very slow week in my office. Today we almost pitched a no-hitter, having only one patient come in toward the end of the day. Overall, we’ve been quiet in nearly every way – few phone calls, few patients...
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Sun, Jun 14 2015 10:32 AM
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The Dark Age of Meaningful Use
By NICHOLAS ORLOWSKI A lesson from the future: We look back at the years between 2010 and 2016 (The lifespan of Meaningful Use) as a dark age in healthcare software. It was an era where software companies bound by government mandate to churn out horrible...
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Tue, Jun 16 2015 3:03 AM
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Giving Software Engineers a Seat at the Table
By JEROME CARTER, MD Increasingly, research is becoming available that reveals the weaknesses and strengths of health information technologies. Everything from infusion pumps to EHR systems have been subjected to analysis. The new flow of information...
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Wed, Jun 17 2015 9:28 AM
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Anatomy of a Healthcare Quality Metric
By RACHEL KATZ In the future, doctors who provide better healthcare will be paid more. When a doctor gives good care, she will get credit. For factors out of that doctor’s control, she won’t be penalized. The patient, too, will be rewarded for taking...
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Fri, Jun 19 2015 5:18 AM
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Sorry, Patients ARE Qualified to Yelp Doctors!
By CANCER GEEK Last night my friend and mentor Marie Ennis-O’Connor (@JBBC) highlighted her recent post on Medium entitled: “Patients As A Prop.” Marie’s post pointed me to an opinion piece written by Niam Yaraghi (@niamyaraghi) for US News...
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Sat, Jun 20 2015 6:49 AM
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Did Dr. Virginia Apgar worry about work-life balance?
By KAREN SIBERT, MD Dr. Margaret Wood, who chairs the Department of Anesthesiology at Columbia University Medical Center, has published a wonderful article titled “Women in Medicine: Then and Now“, in the journal Anesthesia and Analgesia. I think I speak...
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Mon, Jun 01 2015 1:09 AM
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Why Large Scale Government IT Projects Fail and What To Do About It
By KEVIN DE SOUZA and KENDRA SMITH The volume of failed large-scale information technology (IT) projects in the public sector is troubling. These projects are failing at an alarming rate. The long history of public sector IT failures has seen billions...
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Tue, Jun 02 2015 8:09 AM
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Building Healthy Communities 2.0
By SUSAN DENTZER With its elegant homes, pleasant park and bustling stores, the Woodlawn section of Birmingham, Alabama was described in a 1950 news article as “a really great section of Birmingham…typical of the fine things in life.” Then...
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Wed, Jun 03 2015 9:03 AM
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Moneyball For Doctors and Nurses (and the People Who Run Hospitals)
By PAUL KECKLEY Michael Lewis’ 2003 best seller Moneyball recounts how Oakland Athletics’ manager Billy Beane beat the big-payroll odds in major league baseball by using analytics to field a competitive team. The dynamic between Beane and...
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Wed, Jun 24 2015 6:31 AM
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How to Win Friends and Influence Doctors
By EDWARD CORBETT, MD I remember the meeting as if it were yesterday. It was a fine, crisp morning. My Health Catalyst team and I were at a new partner hospital with a national reputation, known for its excellent coordinated care and its outstanding performance...
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Thu, Jun 25 2015 6:14 AM
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Two Years Later: How Kynect Has Impacted Kentucky’s Healthcare System
By CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY SPONSORED CONTENT Since its second enrollment period ended in March, Kentucky’s health benefit exchange has been celebrated by state government leaders as a success story of the Affordable Care Act. Known as Kynect, the Read...
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Thu, Jun 25 2015 10:04 AM
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Disruptive Regulation
By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE The latest salvo in the interoperability and information-blocking debate comes from two academic experts in the field of informatics, and was recently published in JAMIA. In the brief article, Sittig and Wright are endeavoring to...
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Mon, Jun 29 2015 3:39 AM
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