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Measure would help early adopters of EHRs qualify for incentives
Rep. Michael Burgess, M.D., (R-TX) today introduced legislation that would allow health care providers to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments in 2011 and 2012 if their current electronic health record systems meet meaningful use requiremen...
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CMS announces conference calls on EHR incentive programs
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host an Aug. 11 conference call for hospitals on the Medicare and Medicaid incentive programs for electronic health records. The call will review specifics such as who is eligible to participate, the si...
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Hospital leaders share concerns at House hearing on HITECH ACT
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee today held a hearing on implementation of the HITECH Act, which provides more than $17 billion in Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments to promote the adoption of electronic health records. At the h...
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Editorial- New CUSP funding announced for states
States can apply to receive up to $70,000 to support participation in the "On the CUSP: Stop BSI" initiative, the AHA's Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) announced last week. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is providing ...
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Wellness for Health Care Executives
Gary Scholar When you were a child, you were asked many times, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Whatever your answer, I'm confident you never replied, "When I grow up I want to be a stressed-out, unhealthy health care e...
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The World Gets All Up in Your Face, Part 1
David Ollier Weber Editor's note: This article is the first in a two-part series on long-distance medical care. The first part covers insurance programs that send employees to cheaper clinics in another part of the nation. The second part cover...
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Accidents Happen
Ralph Gabarro made headlines on June 11, but not the type of headlines an executive wants to make. "Man dies of overdose at hospital," read the Bangor Daily News. Gabarro went public with the story of a patient who entered Mayo Regional Hospital's ED to g...
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'Meaningful Use' Hoists Hospital IT to Next Level
Click here for the 2010 Most Wired Hospitals Meaningful use. Those two words have so dominated the health information technology marketplace for the past year and a half that it's been difficult to see the forest for the trees. For most ho...
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Striking a Balance
Corporate Governance It's a common boardroom refrain these days. How can we make our governance process more efficient? Can we reduce demands on volunteer directors and management? Can we lighten board members' burdens without compromising quality of le...
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Clinical Integration: Fast Forward
When 82-year-old Jack Schlichting was admitted to the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit five years ago with a badly broken leg, he received standard hospital treatment: initial care in the trauma center, surgery and some time in the hospital recovering. But h...
