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At about the same time the Senate Finance Committee voted 14-9 Tuesday to approve its healthcare reform bill, Medical Group Management Association Presidnet and CEO William F. Jessee, MD, took the stage in Denver to urge his audience to do their part to fix the nation's troubled healthcare system.
A physician might qualify for $44,000 in government incentives for meaningful use of an electronic health record – but "if you have a system that's a disaster, who cares?"
The Medical Group Management Association's point man in Washington, D.C., says most of the groups the MGMA represents would not be eligible for government incentives for adopting and using an electronic health record by 2011.
The uptake of electronic health records among physician practices could stall as physicians face yet another threat of cuts in Medicare reimbursement, said William F. Jessee, MD, CEO of the Medical Group Management Association.
Iowa’s largest integrated healthcare system announced Monday a new initiative, called ePrescribe Iowa, aimed at getting physicians to switch from paper prescriptions to electronic ones.
Ezekiel Emanuel, a White House adviser on healthcare policy, says high-touch is the way to fix the nation’s failing – and costly – healthcare system. In his keynote talk at the Medical Group Management Association in Denver on Sunday Emanuel called for patient-centered, data-driven physician practices.
Health Level Seven, the global authority on standards for interoperability of health information technology with members in 57 countries, has added Hong Kong to its growing number of more than 30 affiliates.
Thanks to federal grant money, the Hamilton Community Health Network, a 25-physician, six-campus practice serving Flint, Mich. - an area that has been particularly hit hard by the economic crisis - will be able to implement an electronic medical record.
Aneesh Chopra, the nation's chief technology officer, appealed to the Health 2.0 community this week to help bring "game-changing innovation" to healthcare.
A coalition of smart card industry executives is calling on the government to establish standards for identity management to help prevent the thousands of deaths that occur each year when healthcare providers misidentify a patient