This Week's Healthcare Online News
Modern Healthcare
Physician Compare website adds quality scores
Feb,21,2014
by+Andis Robeznieks
The CMS is working to make its Physician Compare website more relevant to patients by adding quality measures related to the treatment of diabetes and heart disease for 66 group practices and 141 accountable care organizations.
The quality scores were developed from data generated from the groups that participated in the CMS Physician Quality Reporting System's Group Reporting Option and the ACOs participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, according to a CMS fact sheet. These groups and ACOs also were given 30 days to review their data for accuracy.
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MobiHealthNews
In-Depth: A brief history of digital patient engagement tools
Feb,21,2014
by:+The MobiHealthNews Team
Without a doubt patient engagement is one of the more important trends in healthcare and health IT right now. Over the past few years the tools that look to enable patient engagement between providers and patients have changed markedly. It is important to note, however, that the tools themselves are just a small part of the story — they can go a long way toward improving patient engagement, though. The drivers of the patient engagement buzz are varied, but one big one is the federal government’s Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) Meaningful Use (MU) program, which is beginning to include requirements for very basic patient engagement services.
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Modern Healthcare
Most employers will keep offering workers health insurance
Feb,19,2014
by:+Paul Demko
The vast majority of employers will continue to offer workers health insurance coverage in the coming years, but many will alter the way they deliver those benefits, according to a new survey by Aon Hewitt (PDF). Of the 1,230 companies surveyed, employing more than 10 million workers, 95% indicated that they expect to continue offering employees health insurance coverage during the next three to five years.
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HealthDataManagement
Too Many Deadlines for eHealth Incentive Programs? Here’s Help
Feb,20,2014
by:+Joseph Goedert
Did you know that there are 36 milestone dates to remember with the electronic health records meaningful use program between January 2014 and December 2016?
How about 22 milestones for the PQRS and IQR quality measurement programs during that same period? There also are five milestones for administrative simplification requirements between January 2014 and November 5, 2015. These milestones cover operating rules for electronic funds transfer and remittance advice, ICD-10 compliance, and deadlines for large and small health plans to obtain a health plan identifier.
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