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The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, home of CIO Christopher J. Ross, one of the four health IT leaders in this ninth installment of
Healthcare IT News Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era feature series.
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck the U.S. early last year, life slowed down, even ground to a halt in many circumstances. But for health IT, things sped up.
When new technologies were needed to solve fast-moving healthcare challenges, hospitals and health systems could not afford to wait the time it normally took to stand up IT. They needed help fast.
CIOs and their teams came through, learning to produce quality work in record time. But at the same time, bad actors were taking advantage of the pandemic-fueled chaos to strike healthcare provider organizations at their most vulnerable. Despite some early chatter of a hacker pandemic ceasefire, it quickly became clear that cybercriminals were moving forward.
448 Georgia officials say they’re still working toward a July 1 launch of the waiver plan to add more people to the state’s Medicaid program,.
Georgia officials say they’re still working toward a July 1 launch of the waiver plan to add more people to the state’s Medicaid program, despite a harsh initial assessment by the Biden administration.
The conflict with the feds involves the eligibility requirements that Georgia proposed and that the Trump administration approved. President Joe Biden, who took office in January, and his fellow Democrats have sharply different views on Medicaid than do former President Donald Trump and many Republicans.
Since Jan. 1, 2021, hospitals in the US have been required by The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide pricing information online about items and services. A team of researchers from Brigham and Women s Hospital and Massachusetts Eye and Ear leveraged the newly available data to analyze price transparency and price variation for the treatment of thyroid cancer.
Iowa Capital Dispatch
Five of the Iowa nursing homes deemed by the government to be among the worst in the nation have met that criteria for at least two years. (Photo courtesy of the Iowa Department on Aging and Long-Term Care Ombudsman s Office)
Five of the Iowa nursing homes deemed by the government to be among the worst in the nation have met those criteria for at least two years, and one has qualified for four years, according to federal records.
The list of the nation’s worst-performing nursing homes, compiled by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is known as the special-focus facilities list, and is updated quarterly. The special-focus facilities are those deemed by CMS to have “a history of serious quality issues” and they are enrolled in a special program that is intended to stimulate improvements in their quality of care through increased oversight.