Though CMS is encouraging Medicare ‘meaningful use’ of EHRs by paying over $22.5 billion as incentives, a recent report released by the Office of the Inspector General for the Health and Human Services Department (HSS) says that CMS and its contractors...
The Obamacare Employer Mandate, one of the most vaunted provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), was supposed to come into effect in 2014. The mandate insists that companies with more than 50 full-time employees provide health coverage for their employees by 2014...
The federal government has a new concern to deal with – a cloning feature in electronic health records which enable physicians to cut and paste from the previous visits of patients. The cut and paste is a standard feature in all software, including EHR applications....
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has published a detailed report regarding waste of money in the U.S. healthcare, which reaches up to $750 annually. The political parties are trying to reduce spending in Medicare but they still don’t have any idea how to reduce the...
