09
Sep
stored in: Tim Rowan's Home Care Technology Report and tagged: Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), Affordable Care Act (ACA), electronic health records (EHR), health IT, health legislation, home healthcare, hospital readmissions, Meaningful Use, patient data, payments, post-acute providers, referrals, software standards, software vendors, system interoperability
By Tim Rowan At first glance, discussion of Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records (EHR), the standard by which the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will determine eligibility for stimulus payments to healthcare providers, is only of interest to hospitals and physicians. This could be a costly assumption for home health […]
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31
Aug
When CMS announced last week that it had given in to the strong concerns of “some provider groups” and delayed the deadline for ICD-10 compliance one year to October 1, 2014, it did not mention the American Medical Association (AMA) but the inference was there for the taking. (Click here for the complete CMS statement.) […]
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