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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule Monday on telemedicine credentialing and privileging that aims to not only make the process less cumbersome for small hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) in rural areas, but also to provide more timely care.
New Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) research indicates that medical groups face significant challenges as they seek to transition to the new HIPAA Version 5010 electronic standards.
Americans who have health issues are now using the Internet to expand their support networks to include online peers, especially if they have a rare disease, according to a new report by the Pew Internet Project and California HealthCare Foundation.
In order to make sure Medicaid providers qualify to receive meaningful use incentives, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has proposed a two-year project aimed at understanding the barriers they face.
Getting rural providers, including critical access hospitals, to adopt electronic medical records is a monumental challenge, as the healthcare industry and advocates of healthcare IT are experiencing.
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Patients are finding it hard to do online research on their primary care doctors, according to a new survey.
Neurological Services of Orlando is poised to roll out a Web-based neurology-specific electronic health record and practice management system developed by Waiting Room Solutions of Goshen, N.Y.
Accenture and Plexis have launched a solution designed to optimize the efficiency, cost and reliability of Medicaid Management Information Systems. Accenture’s Public Health Platform introduces a new MMIS option designed to enable states to better adapt to the evolving Medicaid landscape.
The government has already begun planning for meaningful use requirements under Stages 2 and 3 – to be used beginning in 2013 and 2015 – and some stakeholders would like to see the feds raise the ante on quality.