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The Affordable Care Act offers effective new technology and sophisticated data analysis for reducing healthcare fraud that will build on programs that helped Medicare and Medicaid recover billions of dollars in 2009, according to the government's annual Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program (HCFAC) report.
The American Telemedicine Association’s 15th Annual International Meeting and Exposition opens in San Antonio, Texas, May 16 with more than 3,000 attendees and 300 exhibitors expected.
Intelimedix has launched Tru:Beacon, a technology-based solution that precisely identifies opportunities to save medical costs without lowering quality of care.
Health care providers and plans can anticipate tougher enforcement and higher fines for HIPAA violations, OCR officials say.
The White House has begun developing a strategy for securing online transactions and stemming identity fraud that pays particular heed to the importance of building a trusted arena for electronic healthcare transactions.
The government’s initiative for meaningful use of electronic health records has fueled the demand for discrete, structured and actionable clinical data.
Recently, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology issued its interim final rule for meaningful use, health information technology standards, and certification criteria and implementation specifications for electronic health record incentive payments.
A recent story in the New York Times about “Web coupons” tells how the massive, under-the-radar data mining industry just hammered one of the last nails into the coffin of online "privacy". In case you are naïve enough to imagine you have any privacy at all online – this story proves you have none.
It was a stroke of genius and practicality at once that created the health information technology extension program.
As a resident in obstetrics and gynecology I am exposed to a number of different clinical situations. We take care of patients in the outpatient setting, in the emergency room, on the labor floor and in the operating room. Regardless of where we are caring for our patients, documentation is a large part of daily clinical responsibilities.