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This channel includes news coverage of healthcare policy and regulations set by Congress, the states, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and medical associations and societies. 

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Which components of health IT will drive financial value?

A framework that describes the ability of specific health information exchange and EHR functionalities to drive financial savings could help efforts to develop meaningful use measures and measure the financial impact of health IT, according to research published in the August issue of the American Journal of Managed Care.

Blue Shield of California enters accountable care agreement

Blue Shield of California will enter a partnership with Dominican Hospital and Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz County on a three-year accountable care initiative.

ICD-10: CMIOs Can Aid Process

Despite the recent one-year implementation delay to October 2014, ICD-10 should be a top priority for CMIOs over the next two years. G. Daniel Martich, MD, CMIO and VP of physician services at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), discusses his role in the facilitys progress on ICD-10.

Another 89 ACOs join federal cost-sharing programs

Eighty-nine new accountable care organizations (ACOs) serving 1.2 million Medicare patients in 40 states and Washington, D.C. officially entered into agreements with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as of July 1.

Cleveland system keeps up with computer-assisted coding, documentation improvement

The Cleveland Clinic Health System (CCHS) is successfully evolving, using computer-assisted coding (CAC) to address clinical documentation improvement, ICD-10 implementation and more, according to an article published in the July issue of Journal of AHIMA.

Geisinger, Merck collaborate for patient adherence

Geisinger Health System and pharmaceutical company Merck will enter into a new multi-year collaboration designed to improve patient health outcomes by focusing on shared decision making between patients and physicians and improved patient adherence.

NEJM: Release your inner health IT productivity

A perspective article published in the June 14 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine set out to explain the IT productivity paradox and its relation to the rise of health IT implementations.

PwC: Healthcare spending growth slow for 4th year

Growth in healthcare spending in the U.S. has slowed considerably since 2009, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers's Health Research Institute. The organization projects medical costs will increase 7.5 percent for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth.

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