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Berwick: Meaningful Use still in its adolescence
The use of analytics in healthcare has potential, former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Donald Berwick, M.D. told HealthLeaders Media in a recent interview. According to Berwick, CMS trials with analytics adoption at Oak Ridge (Tenn.) National Laboratory showed success with regard to the use of predictive analytics for fraud prevention.
Thousands vie for CMS innovation grants
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has been inundated with applications for Health Care Innovation Challenge grants and as a result has delayed rewarding them, the agency announced
Why hospital execs should be wary of politicized healthcare
Despite the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation's recent reversal of its decision to stop funding a Planned Parenthood initiative for breast cancer screening and the resignation of the executive
Will ACOs show financial returns?
Despite projected goals of saving $400 million in three years of Shared Savings and $1.1 billion in five years for the Pioneer Program, accountable care organizations (ACO) encounter skeptics on
Tavenner: Berwick Part 2 for payers?
Since the Obama administration announced Marilyn Tavenner as its pick to run the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), questions about her leadership style and goals for the agency have
The Don Berwick legacy on his last CMS day
As Dr. Donald Berwick exits the administrator post at the Centers for the Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today, the healthcare industry reminisces about his 18 months in office. Although cut
Medicare to cover preventive care for obese
Medicare will pay for screenings, counseling, and other preventive services to help reduce obesity rates and associated health risks, such as heart disease, strokes, and diabetes, the Centers for
Providers cheer Tavenner as new CMS administrator
Early reactions from providers show support for the new administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). With Dr. Donald Berwick's pre-Thanksgiving resignation from his post,
Berwick's resignation from CMS bad news for health IT
The resignation of Don Berwick last week after 18 months as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) should be a cause of concern in the healthcare industry, as well as
Labels may push insurers to become consumer-centric
Insurers are all aflutter about the new rules requiring standardized summaries of health plan costs and benefits, fearing it's just another financial burden to add to their long list of regulatory
