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- An Overview of Final Regulations Implementing HITECH's Meaningful Use Provisions and their Implications for Regional Collaboratives
as other regional health care collaboratives. Health Care Legal Issues Health ... Nov (Health Care Legal Issues, Health Information Technology (HIT)) ...
Aug 01,2011
- LegalNotes - Promoting Greater Access to Health Information
Health Care Legal Issues Public ... This inaugural issue of LegalNotes examines recent guidelines released by the U.S. Department of Health ... Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule1 permits health care providers to share information ...
Aug 01,2011
- Legal Notes - Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, October 2011
2011 (Care Across Settings, Hospital Care, Health Care Legal Issues) ... excessive readmission rate for the "applicable conditions." This issue of Legal Notes outlines the ... The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ...
Oct 31,2011
- Accountable Care Organizations: Implications for Antitrust Policy
Mar (Health Care Legal Issues) ... information about the quality and cost of care. Health Care Legal Issues Public ...
Aug 01,2011
- Consumer Consent Options for Electronic Health Information Exchange: Policy Considerations and Analysis
Health Care Legal Issues Health ... -None- (Health Care Legal Issues, Health Information Technology (HIT)) ... explores the challenges of exchanging, sharing and controlling one's own health information via a ...
Aug 01,2011
- Meaningful Use for Eligible Professionals: The Top Ten Challenges
Apr (Health Care Legal Issues, Health Information Technology (HIT)) ... providers eligible for funds under the CMS Health Information ...
Aug 01,2011
- Engaging Consumers in Quality Issues
getting high quality health care. Yet, consumers have been slow to use comparative performance reports to help them make health care choices. About 19% of consumers said they saw and used quality information ...
Aug 01,2011
- San Antonio: Providing Health Care for the Acute Mentally Ill: A Community Response
the Bexar County program. The Bexar County Jail Diversion Program and Crisis Mental Health System offers an example of how a joint effort involving the medical, legal, and mental health ... can ease the burden of crowded jails. The Center for Health Care Services created the diversion ...
May 21,2012
- Addressing Language Barriers in Health Care, Asks "What's at Stake?
Primer/Brief This issue brief addresses the link between good care and effective communication between patients and providers. Content details the impact of health care processes when language barriers are not addressed. ...
Aug 01,2011
- Improving Quality of Health Care Relies on Effective Language Services
Primer/Brief An issue brief highlighting how 10 hospitals used measurement and data to determine the best way to provide language services to limited English proficient (LEP) patient populations. Describes specific ...
Aug 01,2011
