Weekly Roundup: Health care news and notes
May 15, 2015 · NCQA
Every Friday NCQA gives a rundown of some of the health care news stories from the past week. Here are some of our picks for this week:
- Study: Prevalence and data transparency of national clinical registries. [Journal for Healthcare Quality]
- Almost 12 million gained Medicaid coverage under ACA. [The Hill]
- House draft bill drops CME payment disclosures to sunshine database. [Wall Street Journal]
- Lack of interoperability dominates VA health IT challenges. [EHR Intelligence]
- Having a stroke in the hospital can mean slower care, not faster. [Modern Healthcare]
- IBM Watson targets cancer and enlists prominent providers in the fight. [Modern Healthcare]
- What NCQA recognition means for patients with diabetes. [American Journal of Managed Care]
- Atul Gawande explains in plain English why American health care costs are out of control and what to do about it. [The New Yorker]
- Medicaid at 50: Medicaid has evolved over time to meet changing needs. [Kaiser Family Foundation]
- Paying people to use lower cost health care providers saves money. [Forbes]
- Health IT–enabled care coordination: A national survey of PCMH clinicians. [Annals of Family Medicine]
- Independent panel to review requests from seriously ill patients for unapproved medicines. [Wall Street Journal]
- Wearable gadgets portend vast health, research and privacy consequences. [Washington Post]
