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CMS Goes Live with Blue Button - With Life and Cost Saving Applications for 53 Million Americans to Use
On August 13 at the White House in Washington, D.C., the Office of American Innovation and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will host the first Blue Button 2.0 conference. This event will highlight CMS’ strong investment and leadership in Blue Button as a patient driven means for interoperability, cost-effective care and patient safety. Eight years after President Obama’s announcement of the Blue Button initiative to give Veterans, military beneficiaries and Medicare beneficiaries “easy access to their health information” with the use of a “Blue Button”, CMS Administrator Seema Verma took action with “Blue Button 2.0” so that 53 million Medicare beneficiaries can now make use of CMS approved patient facing Blue Button applications, turning a four-year history of claim data into actionable longitudinal health records to prevent costly medical errors, unnecessary redundant care or other harmful and wasteful care.
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For V.A. Hospitals (And Patients), A Major Health Victory
Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the United States is making modest progress in bringing down rates of hospital-acquired infections...
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HHS Names HealthCare.Gov CEO
...Kevin Counihan, the current CEO of Access Health CT, Connecticut’s state exchange, has been named federal marketplace CEO by Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell...
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How MACRA Will Decimate the Private Practice Physician
Small, independent private practices are closing, increasing numbers of physicians are retiring, and fewer medical school graduates are choosing primary care. The old-fashioned practice my father and I have built is a dying entity. Parents say coming to see us for an appointment feels more like a visit with a friend than a medical encounter. I am fighting for the survival of primary care practices. MACRA proposed reimbursement will decimate rural care as we know it...
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Humetrix to Demo iBlueButton's Capabilities to Serve Veterans Leveraging the New VA Lighthouse Blue Button 2.0 API at CES in Capitol Hill
At the Consumer Technology Association's (CTA) Tenth Annual CES on the Hill, Humetrix will demonstrate iBlueButton, its Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved Blue Button 2.0 mobile health application, to give Americans covered by Medicare as well as Veterans and TRICARE enrollees the ability to securely access, store and share - under their direct and sole control - their health records. CES on the Hill will take place on Wednesday May 1st from 6:00 - 8:00 pm in the cafeteria of the Rayburn Office Building...iBlueButton transforms claim data in real time into an actionable longitudinal health record. Immediately available on the user's phone or tablet, iBlueButton provides up to date lists of medications (actually delivered by a pharmacy, and not simply prescribed), diagnoses, and prior tests and procedures for users to review and share with their physicians wherever they receive care...
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Interoperability: Can It Really Happen In 10 Years?
With electronic health records now in place among hospitals and medical practices, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT embraced its new mandate in 2014: getting them to talk to each other...
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New Book: 120 Milestones Mark the “Rise of Integrative Health and Medicine"
A confluence of multiple streams over five decades has empowered the emergence of integrative health and medicine as the coming model for health care’s future. An outline of the field’s rich history is captured for the first time in “The Rise of Integrative Health and Medicine: The Milestones—1963 to Present.” The beautifully illustrated and designed book of over 120 short elements, was published by FON Consulting in partnership with XYMOGEN®, and drawn principally from the work of the field’s leading chronicle, The Integrator Blog News & Reports. The book is available in hard copy or as an e-book on the FON and XYMOGEN websites...
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ONC Scraps Proposed 2015 Edition EHR Testing Criteria
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has abandoned its proposal to create nonbinding testing and certification criteria intended to prepare EHR vendors for coming requirements for electronic health-record systems. In a 187-page final rule leased Wednesday, the ONC formally scrapped the plan for a voluntary 2015 Edition of EHR testing and certification criteria...
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Top 5 Government Health IT Stories Of The Summer
Call it the season of interoperability. That was the biggest topic of the summer among Government Health IT readers...
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