The National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) is partnering with e-prescribing software provider DrFirst to offer e-prescribing, meaningful use and patient medication adherence programs to NHMA members.

Seventy percent of adults think the U.S. healthcare system needs to be fundamentally changed or completely rebuilt. A large majority also want their care to include health IT such as EMRs and data exchange, according to a Commonwealth Fund survey.

Although the percentage of state population with healthcare coverage will increase, the percentage of employees offered insurance will not change substantially, but a small number of employees in small firms (under 100 employees in 2016) will obtain employers-sponsored insurance through state insurance exchanges, according to research from Rand Health.

Twenty percent of community hospitals plan to switch their EMR system during the next couple of years, according to a report from KLAS.

NEW ORLEANSThe cardiology profession seems to suffer from a collective case of magical thinking, offered Charles McKay, MD, of the University of California - Los Angeles. Symptoms include a sense that quality measurement is not real, an insistence that decision support is unnecessary and a belief that hospitals dont care about quality. Researchers shared data from five outcome studies that addressed these sacred cows, during a presentation at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology. (The final two studies are profiled below. Read CVB Daily on April 7 for the first three.)

NEW ORLEANSThe cardiology profession seems to suffer from a collective case of magical thinking, offered Charles McKay, MD, of the University of California - Los Angeles. Symptoms include a sense that quality measurement is not real, an insistence that decision support is unnecessary and a belief that hospitals dont care about quality. Researchers shared data from five outcome studies that addressed these sacred cows, during a presentation at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology (ACC). (The first three studies are profiled below, and the additional two will be featured next week.)

Small practices--those with fewer than 10 physicians--have some familiar concerns when it comes to the conversion to HIPAA Version 5010, which must be completed by Jan. 1, 2012. Those concerns are resources, time and money, according to Jackie Griffin, manager of the revenue cycle management company Gateway EDI in St. Louis, Mo.

The Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP) has launched a new initiative to provide the public, media and policymakers with resources and information about the value of care coordination and accountable care to national healthcare reform.