On April 10, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published parallel proposed rules revising, respectively, the Stark exception and Anti-Kickback safe harbor concerning electronic health record (EHR) items and services. Highlights of the proposed rules include:Sunset Provision. ...
The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), Heritage Provider Network (HPN), and The Advisory Board Company have launched the Care Transformation Prize Series, a national contest to address the most daunting data problems US health care organizations face as they implement new delivery system and payment reforms. This challenge will will examine the most difficult questions facing health ...
President Obama has released his 2014 budget proposal, which includes $80.1 billion in spending for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), an increase of $3.9 billion. The proposed budget for The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) would increase its $61 million budget to $78 million, a 28% increase. The plan also includes a $1 million fee ...
Over ten years ago Intel launched the Proactive Health Research Project, a multiyear effort to bring ubiquitous computing to eldercare. Since that time Eric Dishman, an Intel Fellow and now general manager of the Health Strategy & Solutions Group, has been promoting healthcare innovation with a specific emphasis on home and community-based technologies and services for chronic ...
In the fall of 2012 the ONC decided that now is not the time for regulations on health information exchange governance. They decided to instead implement an approach that provides a means for defining and implementing nationwide trusted exchange with higher agility, by working in concert with the private market in a collaborative manner. On December 20, 2012 ONC released the Exemplar ...
April 2, 2013 at the White House, President Obama unveiled the BRAIN Initiative — a new research effort to revolutionize our understanding of the human mind and uncover new ways to treat, prevent, and cure brain disorders like Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, autism, epilepsy, and traumatic brain injury.The BRAIN Initiative — short for Brain Research through Advancing Innovative ...
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