Morning Headlines 4/16/15
Bipartisan Senate ends flawed Medicare payment formula
On Tuesday, Senate passed the SRG replacement bill that cleared the House last week, winning 92 – 8 bipartisan support.
GE Healthcare: We’re leaving the hospital EMR business
At HIMSS, GE Healthcare reportedly confirms rumors that it will phase out its Centricity EHR business line, but then later this week introduces a new financial management product under the Centricity line.
Health IT chief DeSalvo urges more patients to seek access to electronic records
ONC chief Karen DeSalvo, MD spends part of her week at HIMSS defending her recent decision to remove the minimum 5 percent threshold for patients who view, download, or transmit their medical record.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.