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Morning Headlines 12/5/14
HL7 Launches Joint Argonaut Project to Advance FHIR
HL7 will work with a large consortium of vendors and health systems to develop a standardized data sharing API and a set of common vocabularies that all EHR vendors could adopt to exchange discrete data and improve interoperability.
Researchers created a computerized questionnaire that collects clinical data from both patients and providers and then produces a narrative history of present illness. A panel of 48 physicians then blindly evaluated them against physician-documented HPIs, concluding that the computer-generated HPIs were more complete, more useful, more succinct, and better organized.
State says it has repaid $1.3M in overpayments
Massachusetts pays back $1.3 million in Meaningful Use incentive payments after a federal audit found that local hospitals received $2.1 million in overpayments. Representatives from the state Medicaid agency report that the remaining balance will be subtracted from future payments to the overpaid hospitals.
Re HPI: but were they more accurate and reflective of the associated social circumstances?
For instance, did the device ask if the patient was compliant with pre existing medication prescriptions?