James Andrews, MD, founder of the Andrews Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center in Birmingham, Ala., will perform ulnar collateral ligament repair on Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain, according to an article published in the New York Times.
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The Office for Civil Rights has proposed revisions to HIPAA’s security rule, calling for stricter accounting of disclosures of protected health information. Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on protected health information.
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have patented a wireless chip designed to track and monitor surgical implants, according to a CMIO report.
Ron Joseph, MD, an orthopedist, recently joined Gulfcoast Spine Institute in Brooksville, Fla., according to a practice news release.
In recognition to administrative burden on healthcare providers, CMS’ proposal includes additional hardship exemption categories for eligible professionals and group practices during 2011 for the 2012 eRx payment adjustment due to a significant hardship. Read the full report in Becker’s…
CMS will be assessing claims from the first six months of this year as a baseline period to determine e-prescribing activity, and starting in 2012, approximately 209,000 healthcare providers are in danger of being penalized by a 1 percent reduction…
At a hearing of the House Small Business Committee’s healthcare and technology subcommittee, solo physicians and small physician practices detailed their financial struggles as they work to choose, implement and learn to use electronic health records, according to a Government…
Recent study findings showed small physician practices (either solo practitioners or two-physician practices) are less likely to adopt electronic health records, according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital…
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will be surveying Medicaid providers to collect data on specific meaningful use challenges and using that information to create technical assistance and support for those providers, according to a Government Health IT news…
The workgroup that advises the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT on meaningful use issues has recommended the federal agency delay implementation of stage 2 meaningful use by one year in order to lift the burden for eligible…