The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has corrected the Stage 2 meaningful use Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.

The South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services discovered this month that a Medicaid employee inappropriately transferred personal information for 228,435 Medicaid beneficiaries to their personal email account, constituting a violation of agency policy.

Thomson Reuters released its 100 Top Hospitals report April 16, using "objective research and independent public data to recognize the best U.S. hospitals."

Now that 27 Medicare Shared Savings Program participants have been announced, bloggers for Health Affairs examined the state of accountable care organizations (ACOs). Turns out, the fun is just getting started.

The National Council on Aging and Humanas Humana Cares complex and chronic care management division are partnering to pilot Stanford Universitys online Chronic Disease Self-Management Program.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), along with five Congressional colleagues, has sent a letter to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the FDA imploring the agencies to clarify who oversees each agencys policy development (including regulations, guidance, etc.) for wireless health devices and their supporting infrastructure, as well as how the policy measures are coordinated among the agencies and the ONC.

Assigning a numerical value to an outcome can objectify the healthcare processes and lead to a clearer understanding of how and when high-quality care is provided, according to an article published in the March/April edition of Physician Executive Journal of Medical Management.

With an eye on sharing the most important patient safety lessons with the public as well as its members, the ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization has come out with a new version of its adverse-event collection and reporting system.