(MedPage Today) — Medicare advisors vote to shrink drug payments to safety-net hospitals
Should We Celebrate the Death of Meaningful Use?
(MedPage Today) — Not necessarily, says Margalit Gur-Arie
Do Leafy Greens Prevent Glaucoma? (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) — Primary open-angle glaucoma rates lower in people who ate lots of leafy greens
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First patient enrolled in phase 2 ocriplasmin study to treat nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy
The first patient has been enrolled in the phase 2 CIRCLE study evaluating the efficacy and safety of multiple doses of ocriplasmin in inducing total posterior vitreous detachment in patients with nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy, ThromboGenics an…
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Ending Meaningful Use tops CMS’s ‘punch list’ in 2016
As part of a new streamlined regulatory approach in 2016, “The Meaningful Use program, as it has existed, will now be effectively over and replaced with something better,” Andy Slavitt, CMS acting administrator, said at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco.In the coming year, the new central focus of the organization will be to set policy and act as a regulator to make sure the laws of Congress and CMS rules advance the interests of consumers and taxpayers; provide service to beneficiaries, provide technical support to health care providers and partner with states and commercial health plans to deliver CMS programs; and operate as a market signaler, Slavitt said, according to a CMS transcript of the talk.
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Centric Consulting Partners with Healthcare Technology Vendor Health Outcomes Sciences to Deliver Personalized Precision Medicine Solutions
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Technology vendor Health Outcomes Sciences (HOS) announces a strategic partnership with Centric Consulting. The two companies will help healthcare organizations use predictive models at point of care.