In response to numerous commenters who said a one-hour notification rule for privacy and security incidents is impractical and unworkable, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, in a final rule setting standards for health plans operating in state health insurance exchanges, dropped the proposed requirement.

Torrance, CA, September 03, 2013 -- e2o Health is the only EHR services organization that has been chosen as the service partner by all three of the California regional extension centers. The Meaningful Use Experts website features five meaningful use support services that every ambulatory clinic needs in order to achieve Meaningful Use in 2013, and Meaningful Use Stage 2 for 2014 and beyond.

Innovation is the king of buzzwords in healthcare today. And there’s no shortage of books covering the various aspects of innovation in our space. Clinical Innovation + Technology (there’s that word again) spoke with the authors of several books for more on what their readers can gain from their works. 

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 29, 2013--Consumers expect that the upcoming process to sign up for health insurance in October will be a complicated one according to new poll data from HealthPocket. When asked, "Do you believe shopping for a new Obamacare health insurance plan within a government exchange will be an easy process," more than 50 percent of those surveyed said that it will be complicated.

Physician leaders are split over whether the government should release information on Medicare reimbursement payments to physicians, according to a poll conducted by the American College of Physician Executives.

A healthcare lawyer is urging federal agencies to modernize and harmonize their regulatory approaches as healthcare transitions from individual, discrete products to an era of more connected diagnostic and therapeutic systems.

The Consumer Partnership for eHealth (CPeH), a nationwide coalition of more than 50 consumer, patient and labor organizations, released a plan addressing disparities in Stage 3 of the EHR incentive program.

A bill requiring hospitals to provide public pricing information on 140 common medical procedures and services was signed into law in North Carolina.