EHR Report: How Zika virus reveals the fault in our EHRs
It is always noteworthy when the headlines in the medical and mainstream media appear to be the same.
Typically, this means one of two things: 1) Sensationalism has propelled a minor issue into the... (Source: Rheumatology News)
Source: Rheumatology News - March 7, 2016 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: research
VIDEO: What are physicians’ top legal risks in 2016?
AUSTIN, TEX. – With ongoing changes in health delivery and ever-increasing government scrutiny over care, physicians face a number of pressing legal risks this year.
At an American Health Lawyers... (Source: Rheumatology News)
Source: Rheumatology News - March 4, 2016 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: research
New tool better predicts coronary artery disease in lupus patients
MAUI, HAWAII – Multiple studies have firmly established that the traditional Framingham Risk Score seriously underestimates the substantially increased risk of coronary artery disease present in... (Source: Rheumatology News)
Source: Rheumatology News - March 4, 2016 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: research
Expert advises how to use shingles vaccine in rheumatology patients
MAUI, HAWAII – The herpes zoster vaccine is particularly important in patients with rheumatic diseases because their risks of shingles and postherpetic neuralgia are substantially higher than in the... (Source: Rheumatology News)
Source: Rheumatology News - March 4, 2016 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: research
Medicare reaches first quality-based goal early
At least 30% of Medicare payments are now tied to quality, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced March 3. Federal officials originally had aimed to achieve this milestone by the... (Source: Rheumatology News)
Source: Rheumatology News - March 3, 2016 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: research
Uveitis in juvenile idiopathic arthritis may be preventable
MAUI, HAWAII – Uveitis is a common, highly destructive manifestation of juvenile idiopathic arthritis that is readily treatable when caught early, Dr. Anne M. Stevens said at the 2016 Rheumatology... (Source: Rheumatology News)
Source: Rheumatology News - March 3, 2016 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: research
Subtle radiographic progression in axial SpA cannot be reliably distinguished from error
Sacroiliitis observed in patients with axial spondyloarthritis more often regressed rather than progressed on radiography over nearly 5 years of follow-up of the Assessment of SpondyloArthritis... (Source: Rheumatology News)
Source: Rheumatology News - March 2, 2016 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: research
AARP: Retail drug prices rising faster than inflation
Retail prices for medications used most commonly by Medicare patients rose almost 10% in 2013 – more than six times faster than the rate of inflation, according to an analysis by the AARP Public... (Source: Rheumatology News)
Source: Rheumatology News - March 2, 2016 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: research
CMS extends EHR hardship exemption deadline to July 1
Physicians and hospitals seeking a hardship exemption for not being able to meet meaningful use requirements in 2015 will have more time to file their application.
Applications for both groups are... (Source: Rheumatology News)
Source: Rheumatology News - March 2, 2016 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: research
Expert counsel: Selling a practice during a government investigation
AUSTIN,TEX. – There a lot of tough questions to answer when selling a medical practice during a government investigation, according to Morristown, N.J.–based health law attorney Glenn P. Prives.... (Source: Rheumatology News)
Source: Rheumatology News - March 2, 2016 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: research
HHS to doctors: We hear your health IT woes
LAS VEGAS – Federal officials have spent months listening to doctors’ complaints about their frustrating EHRs and are responding with a core group of changes to simplify and standardize health... (Source: Rheumatology News)
Source: Rheumatology News - March 2, 2016 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: research
Supreme Court: Self-funded insurer does not have to share data
A self-funded insurer does not have to share health data with a state’s all-payer database, according to a March 1 U.S. Supreme Court decision that could affect information-sharing reforms... (Source: Rheumatology News)
Source: Rheumatology News - March 1, 2016 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: research
Romosozumab, coming ACR guidelines mark recent high points in osteoporosis
MAUI, HAWAII – The investigational bone-building agent romosozumab provided the therapeutic highlight in the field of osteoporosis during the past year, Dr. Martin J. Bergman said at the 2016... (Source: Rheumatology News)
Source: Rheumatology News - March 1, 2016 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: research
Feds: Major EHR companies will remove interoperability roadblocks
LAS VEGAS – Health care data interoperability should get a huge boost under a public-private effort announced Feb. 29 by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell.
The... (Source: Rheumatology News)
Source: Rheumatology News - March 1, 2016 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: research
Subclinical inflammation predicts progression from psoriasis to PsA
People with cutaneous psoriasis who have arthralgia and signs of subclinical inflammation on MRI are at an increased risk of progressing to psoriatic arthritis, according to findings from a... (Source: Rheumatology News)
Source: Rheumatology News - February 29, 2016 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: research
