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Who: BostonHerald.com What: President Barack Obama’s budget next week will steer clear of major cuts to Medicaid, including tens of billions in reductions to the health care plan for the poor that the administration had proposed only last year. The president’s budget is to be released next Wednesday. Perhaps half the nearly 30 million people […]
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Who: BeckersHospitalReview.com What: In a webinar on April 3, Scott Becker, JD, CPA, publisher of Becker’s Healthcare and partner with McGuireWoods in Chicago, moderated a panel discussion with five healthcare leaders. Together, the panel hashed out some of the biggest trends that have emerged today within hospital finance, outsourcing and transactions: 1. The merger climate […]
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Who: SacBee.com What: It sounds futuristic, but today Carnegie Mellon University researchers are developing edible electronic devices that can be implanted in the body to improve patient care. “We are creating electronically active medical devices that can be implanted in the body,” said Christopher Bettinger, an assistant professor in the departments of Materials Science and […]
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Social media is fast becoming a fact of modern life. More and more searches are performed on Facebook, Google maps are used instead of the phone book, and prospective customers look at social media review sites before they decide to patronize a business. What does this have to do with your medical practice? Whether they […]
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Who: WashingtonPost.com What: The county launched a program that offered subsidized coverage to residents who could not afford private insurance but who made too much to qualify for Medicaid, the state-federal program for the poor. But a year after the program began, fewer than 500 people had signed up — less than a third of […]
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Who: www.HealthcareITNews.Com What: All organizations have a business imperative to control risk. For healthcare companies that corporate responsibility extends to the protection of ePHI within their organization. The HIPAA Omnibus rule outlines this responsibility with a refined definition of responsible parties, notably your outsourced storage vendors and subcontractors.This final rule is a call to action, […]
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Who: FierceEMR.Com What: Many providers implementing electronic health record systems and other e-tools may find themselves discriminating against the disabled in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, according to a new American Medical News article. Public facilities and private businesses of 15 employees or more must provide “reasonable accommodation” to disabled employees under the […]
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Who: UPI.Com What: Doctors are changing paper records to electronic health records, but data systems are not sophisticated enough for new types of data, U.S. researchers say. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, said as data becomes cheaper and more available to healthcare providers the ability to store large-scale raw […]
