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Big Business, Little Data

A growing number of Californians are being sent to ambulatory surgery centers for a wide variety of procedures, yet little is known about the care they deliver because reporting is not required.

Keeping Track of Asthma

CHCF has made a second investment in Asthmapolis, a device that tracks asthma inhaler use and reports data through mobile phones to patients and doctors to better manage the disease.

CMS Releases Quality Measures for MU Stage 2 Proposed Rules

CMS has published a list of clinical quality measures included in the proposed rules for Stage 2 of the meaningful use program. Under the Stage 2 proposals, eligible professionals would need to meet 12 clinical quality measures out of a list of 125, and hospitals would need to meet 24 measures out of a list of 49. CMS is accepting public comment on the measures through May 7. CMIO et al.

Organizations React to HHS' Proposed Delay for ICD-10 Compliance

Some groups have praised HHS' proposal to delay the compliance deadline for ICD-10 code sets to Oct. 1, 2014, but the American Health Information Management Association has urged health care organizations to adopt ICD-10 standards as soon as possible. HealthLeaders Media et al.

Number of Residents Affected by Utah Health Data Breach Hits 800K

Utah Department of Health officials have updated their estimate for the number of residents who could be affected by a recent health data breach. UDOH now says the breach could have exposed personal and health data on nearly 800,000 residents. Salt Lake Tribune.

Are Federal Training Programs Meeting the Growing Need for a New Health IT Workforce?

Tim Andrews of Booz Allen Hamilton, Helen Figge of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and Norma Morganti of the Midwest Community College Health IT Consortium spoke with iHealthBeat about federal efforts to bolster the health IT workforce.

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DATA POINTS

How Do Organizations Feel About Their HIE Vendor's Ability To Meet Their Data Needs?

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Sixty-five percent of surveyed health care providers said they are somewhat or very confident in their health information exchange vendor's ability to meet their data integration and analytics needs, while 60% of surveyed insurers said they are somewhat or very confident, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey.

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