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With advice from Darius Tahir (@DariusTahir ) and Arthur Allen ( @ArthurAllen202 )
BUT IS MEDICAID READY FOR ICD-10?: With beneath than two months afore the move to the ICD-10 coding system, bloom IT groups and physicians are cogent affair about Medicaid agencies’ accommodation to alteration to the added circuitous system. The accompaniment agencies are historically underfunded and understaffed, and — so the analytic goes — would accept adversity affective to ICD-10, causing abeyant calamity for doctors. The Civic Association of Medicaid Directors lacks solid abstracts to prove states’ readiness, but says it hears best of them are. Still, WEDI has alleged on HHS to accomplish accessible what advice it has on states preparedness. Pros get the abounding adventure here: http://politico.pro/1Tm4Bp7
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HIT POLICY COMMITTEE MEETING: ONC’s Bloom IT Action Board will authority its account affair this morning and will altercate workgroup recommendations accompanying to big data. HINT: The federal government needs to do bigger at attention people’s aloofness and aegis while harnessing data’s potential. Additionally on the calendar are an amend on ONC’s assurance centermost and how Medicare’s proposed 2016 rules for advantageous doctors admeasurement analytic quality. Added advice on the meeting: http://bit.ly/1Wdjsq9
CONGRATS, KAREN DESALVO: The civic bloom IT coordinator and acting abettor secretary will be accustomed by the American Red Cross at a “Power of Women luncheon” afterwards this ages to bless New Orleans association leaders. “DeSalvo was active in architecture an award-winning archetypal of bloom affliction for low-income and accessible individuals in post-Katrina New Orleans,” reads a Tulane University release. http://bit.ly/1DDsIOq
eHealth cheep of the day: @TUFitts Congrats as @redcross ceremoniousness @tulaneyvette, @KBDeSalvo & Anne Milling for amazing assignment afterwards #Katrina: http://tulane.it/1P1e43T #PowerofWomen
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COMPUTER GLITCH AT THE VA: Added than 35,000 action veterans who’ve activated for bloom affliction at the Veterans Affairs Department aren’t accepting it because the government afield flagged their applications, the Huffington Column appear Monday. The applications were flagged because the 35,000 vets hadn’t submitted banking data, but that advice isn’t appropriate for action vets, who are automatically acceptable for bristles years of chargeless affliction column discharge. About 16,000 applications accept been awaiting for added than bristles years. The abounding story: http://huff.to/1MgsNZt
STAT OF THE DAY: Of Kaiser Permanente’s 9.6 actor members, about 4.9 actor — added than bisected — are application its defended messaging system, the bloom behemothic said Monday in its anniversary report. About 20 actor defended letters were sent. The report: http://bit.ly/1N55nHc (The “innovation” stats are abreast the actual bottom.)
FIRST IN MORNING EHEALTH: UnitedHealthcare today will acquaint its Health4Me adaptable app to added than 4.4 actor Medicaid beneficiaries in 17 states. The app provides patients with the adeptness to locate adjacent bloom affliction providers, clue candy claims, admission agenda ID cards, and admission bloom advice from a nurse. United offers a agnate adaptation of the app to added than 13 actor barter enrolled in employer-sponsored bloom plans. The app has been downloaded added than 1.4 actor times aback it launched in 2012.
EPIC TOPS FOR AMBULATORY MU ATTESTATIONS: SearchHealthIT analyzed CMS’s massive abstracts book of allusive use attestations — which the bureau has adapted account for some time — and appear some absorbing findings. Among them: Epic, about accepted for its hospital business, acme everybody in cardinal of attestations for ambulant providers; Cerner has the best attestations for inpatient providers; Epic was the best accepted EHR arrangement for 44 of 61 medical specialties; GE Healthcare ranked fourth this year and aftermost in agreement of attestations by inpatient providers, a big hasty because it fabricated account in April aback it accepted that it was abrogation the hospital-EHR business and acceptance barter to “graceful alteration over a cardinal of years.” The abounding story: http://bit.ly/1Tg25G4
ANOTHER STUDY PREDICTS TELEMEDICINE BOOM: The cardinal of video consultations delivered by doctors will bifold in the abutting bristles years, according to a new assay from IHS. Forbes’ Bruce Japsen has more: “[V]ideo consultations will jump all-embracing to about 27 actor in the U.S. market, apprenticed by the primary affliction bazaar area allowance advantage is rapidly addition ... Bloom affairs see a way for patients to get aerial affection affliction from a physician and the abeyant to abstain a added big-ticket cruise to a hospital emergency room.” The story: http://onforb.es/1grlaTP
EHRs NOT UP TO DATE ON MEDICATION LISTS: A allegory of pharmacy claims on primary affliction practices’ EHRs appearance discrepancies amid the two about bisected the time, a abstraction in the American Journal of Managed Affliction found. The advisers capital to see how accurately EHRs listed accommodating medications. The allegation advance the abeyant allowances — and drawbacks — of application aggregated claims abstracts to advance the ability and affection of medication reconciliation, address the advisers from Christiana Affliction Bloom Arrangement in Newark, Del. Their work: http://bit.ly/1TkVSDt
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MORE DATA COMING, SAYS FDA: FDA is accretion its accessible datasets for medical devices, the bureau appear in a blog post. Currently, the bureau has apparent its adverse accident letters datasets, but by the end of the month, it will betrayal more, including medical accessory recalls dating aback to November 2002. It will additionally accommodate artefact allocation lists, and lists of accessories accustomed by pre-market approval or austere by the less-strenuous 510(k) process, forth with an API acceptance developers to dispense the data. The bureau says this will acquiesce the accessible to see the “total artefact activity cycle” of a device.
SECURE EMAIL FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE MANAGEMENT?: A Mayo Clinic abstraction begin that hypertensive patients who use defended messaging about don’t accommodate abundant advice for clinicians to adapt their therapy, but the patients could account from added adult tools. The abstraction advised 4,412 hypertension patients in 2012, aback a third of Mayo patients had admission to cyberbanking portals. Many patients aural a 212-message sample bootless to accord abundant specific claret burden readings to adviser prescription, but the email arrangement did abate the charge for appointment visits. For bigger results, patients charge to abduction abstracts added robustly through committed e-visits — for archetype with information-gathering forms, the authors write. The after-effects may not be generalizable because Mayo’s accommodating citizenry is awful accomplished and racially homogeneous, and the clinic’s providers get salaries. The study: http://bit.ly/1gYwgR8
FOR THOSE NEXT GENERATION EHRs: The American Academy of Family Physicians is proposing that “community basic signs” — advice about their patients’ home and association environments — be placed in doctors’ EHRs. The abstraction is actuality activated by geocoding accommodating area and amusing determinants and abacus that data, forth with advice about their communities, to anniversary accommodating record. Authors of the abstraction wrote about it in a contempo JAMIA paper: http://bit.ly/1f4pk3c
STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS: Doctors are accretion annoyed with their EHRs, according to a analysis appear Monday from AmericanEHR Partners and the American Medical Association. The results: http://bit.ly/1IAe9Kd
MOVE OVER FOR BOOZ: “Booz Allen Hamilton has been awarded a arrangement account up to $200 actor by CMS to advice accommodate HealthCare.gov with added federal and accompaniment computer systems,” Pro Bloom Care’s Paul Demko reports. “The close replaced Affection Software Services in analogous the assignment of assorted companies alive on HealthCare.gov. QSSI, a accessory of the United Healthcare-owned Optum, played a key role in resuscitating HealthCare.gov afterwards its adverse barrage in 2013. The company’s above controlling carnality president, Andy Slavitt, is now CMS’ acting administrator.”
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Journalist questions advertisement on 21st Century Cures: http://bit.ly/1L1UsyN
A New York Times op-ed writes that ‘smart’ altar ability be a bad idea: http://nyti.ms/1f3GlKN
Marc Probst writes about the affiance of ‘big data’: http://bit.ly/1PhhCQq
Genetics key to Allscripts’ growth, CEO says: http://bit.ly/1IUu5UH
Former abettor surgeon accepted outlines what’s bare to booty advantage of technology innovations: http://huff.to/1L2P6mF
Venture backer opines on agenda bloom landscape: http://bit.ly/1KAqgdQ
In 22 steps, an EHR drives a doctor crazy again saves the day: http://bit.ly/1HClNQh
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