Cisco, American Well collaborate to expand telehealth reach
American Well and Cisco Systems are collaborating to extend care delivery from hospitals and health systems into the homes of elderly patients.
View ArticleCMS rule would streamline prior authorizations for e-prescribing
Known as the Support for Patients and Communities Act, the rule would improve patients’ access to medications by updating the prior authorization process for the Medicare Part D drug coverage program.
View ArticleWhy Washington wants more input on health IT initiatives
CIOs and other health IT leaders can help shape policies affecting telehealth, cybersecurity, interoperability and the opioid epidemic.
View ArticleCMS approves GuideWell Connect for ACA direct enrollment
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved GuideWell Connect as an Affordable Care Act direct enrollment platform.
View ArticleCVS Health, Unite Us partner on SDOH effort in 3 states
CVS Health will collaborate with Unite Us to address social determinants of health in an initiative in three states’ Medicaid programs.
View ArticleHealth plans, big tech firms to test Blue Button implementation guide
About a dozen health plans will join Apple, Google and Microsoft to test a new private sector implementation guide for Blue Button 2.0.
View ArticleCMS official notes proposed interoperability rule will impact health plans, too
The federal government expects to use its leadership, clout and some emerging federal regulations to push health payers to share more data.
View ArticleApp ties into Salesforce Health Cloud to address SDOH needs
A new app on the Salesforce AppExchange connects to social services databases, giving case managers information to refer persons to appropriate organizations.
View ArticleVerma: CMS efforts have reduced provider burden to all-time low
It’s been two years since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched an effort to ensure providers spend less time on administrative tasks and more time with patients. Now, CMS contends it...
View Article25 participants advance to Stage 1 of CMS AI challenge
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has selected the top 25 participants to advance to Stage 1 of a challenge to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence solutions for healthcare.
View ArticleCMS releases research-ready Medicaid and CHIP datasets
Researchers now will have access to Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program data from a national repository meant to identify and prevent fraud, waste and abuse.
View ArticleGeisinger-AI vendor aim to reduce adverse events, avoid readmissions
Israel-based Medial EarlySign and Geisinger Health System have partnered to apply advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to Medicare claims data to predict and improve patient...
View ArticleOIG: CMS made $93.6M in faulty Medicare EHR incentive payments
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services made $93.6 million in incorrect Medicare electronic health record incentive payments to acute-care hospitals.
View ArticleHealthcare IT security is only as good as the weakest link
Third-party assurance for vendors advancing among healthcare firms, government entities.
View ArticleBlue Button breach stems from coding issue, data of 10K affected
A data breach at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has affected the protected health information of about 10,000 Medicare beneficiaries and 30 applications.
View ArticleAMA offers practices help with E/M office visit code changes
The American Medical Association has released a checklist and online resources meant to assist physician practices with new Medicare office visit coding and documentation requirements.
View ArticleBlue Button breach to test CMS response to inappropriate data access
In the wake of the data breach at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency has conducted a review of Blue Button 2.0.
View ArticleCMS tool to help consumers make informed care decisions
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants to provide consumers with a simplified and consistent online experience to make it easier for them to find and compare healthcare providers.
View ArticleVerma: Private actors are using privacy as pretext to hold patient data hostage
The Trump administration continues to circle the wagons in its defense of the federal government’s efforts to enable patient access to their electronic health information.
View ArticleStakeholders growing impatient, urge feds to release final rules
It’s been about a year since the Department of Health and Human Services first proposed rules to make patient medical records more accessible, which have yet to be finalized—much to the dismay of some...
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