Mostashari: Sequestration will be difficult for Meaningful Use
Sequestration, set to begin April 1, will prove to be a painful blow to the Meaningful Use Medicare incentive program, National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari said Wednesday, speaking to members of the press at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's annual meeting in New Orleans. Medicare reimbursements are set to be reduced by 2 percent overall, a total that, according to Mostashari, will take roughly $3 million away from ONC's budget.
Eric Topol: Docs must adopt health IT more quickly
The current shift in the healthcare industry to digitize care unquestionably is the biggest shakeup in the history of medicine, according to cardiologist Eric Topol, a professor of genomics at The Scripps Research Institute in San Diego and author of "The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care." Still, Topol says, the industry has a ways to go before it will be able to shake its "slow moving" reputation; the public, he adds, will be key to driving that change. Part 1 Part 2
Healthcare CIOs: You've got the tech chops, but are you ready to lead?
In past years, it was pretty easy to pluck out a theme for the annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. Over the years, the big topics of conversation centered around electronic medical records implementation, for example. (Remember the big bang versus slow rollout debate?)There were years where CIOs were worried about projects such as installing wireless systems, investing in big ticket equipment and devices and using RTLS to track it. More recently, it's been about the ICD-10 coding system overhaul or Meaningful Use.
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