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NewsMaine Community Health Centers to aggregate EHR data for benchmarking
Maine Primary Care Association (MPCA), the organization of the state's community health centers, is launching a quality improvement program based on the aggregation of the community health centers' Read more...
Pennsylvania Medicaid plans defend practices in wake of data breach
The two affiliated Pennsylvania Medicaid managed care plans that recently reported the loss of a hard drive containing records of more than 285,000 enrollees say they have been working to encrypt all Read more...
Lost hard drive puts data on 280,000 Medicaid enrollees at risk
The names, addresses and some health information of 280,000 Medicaid enrollees in Pennsylvania could be at risk after two affiliated managed care organizations reported the loss of a hard drive from Read more...
SC plans to launch Medicaid HIE
South Carolina officials have set plans to launch a health information exchange for the state's 700,000 Medicaid patients. The South Carolina Health Information Exchange, known as SCIEx, will connect Read more...
Mississippi Medicaid saves $14M with e-prescribing
It looks like another financial success for e-prescribing. This time, Mississippi's Medicaid Read more...
Medicaid programs work on shared EMRsHere's a nice example of voluntary collaboration between state governments. A group of states who got federal grants for Medicaid IT improvement have agreed to share their project results with other states, giving the others a leg up on the often-onerous development process. Twenty-seven states got a total of $103.6 million from CMS earlier this year to develop EMRs and related systems. Now about half of those states have begun sharing their work with states that didn't get the grants. … Read more...Massive data loss at HCAThieves recently stole 10 computers from an HCA regional office, potentially compromising the personal data of thousands of Medicare and Medicaid patients in eight states. The personal information of thousands of employees and physicians who tended to patients is also at stake, authorities said last week. Authorities suspect the crime is a part of a series of computer thefts by people looking to make money from hardware, not data. HCA did not disclose where or when the thefts took … Read more... | Press ReleasesDaVita Announces Government InquiryDENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- DaVita Inc. (NYSE: DVA), (the “Company”), a leading provider of kidney care services for those diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD), announced today that it has been Read more >> Using the EHR Data of OCHIN's Practice Based Research Network, Oregon Research Team Finds More Comprehensive Data on Care QualitPublished in the Annals of Family Medicine, Fierce/EMR Reports in July/August the study evaluated documentation of preventive services of 2100 Medicaid patients with diabetes at 50 Oregon based Read more >> Research and Markets: Reducing Avoidable ER Visits by Medicaid Patients Through Quality-Based InterventionsDUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/362885/reducing_avoidable) has announced the addition of the "Reducing Avoidable ER Visits by Medicaid Read more >> MHPA Selects MedAssurant to Enhance Effort to Promote Best Practices for Medicaid Health PlansMedicaid Health Plans of America initiates collaboration with MedAssurant to use comprehensive health datasets to increase quality and improve health outcomes for the medically underservedBOWIE, Md., Read more >> Texas Smiles Dental Center of San Antonio Celebrates Grand OpeningElected officials and community leaders welcome dental health provider committed to children from low-income families SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Texas Smiles today hosted a grand opening Read more >> |
