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The medical system of the Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Washington is ahead of most in minimizing paper files in favor of electronic health records and computerized order entry. VA offers a glimpse of where American medicine likely is headed. As federal standards for health records are promulgated, as patient expectations are bolstered and as digital communication increasingly becomes the norm, it is just a matter of time. But inevitable is not the same as being entirely good. Every technology creates unexpected new problems, and not just things like software bugs. Beyond the programming layer is an entirely different world of unanticipated consequences generated by unforeseen interactions between the software and its users.
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This final rule with comment period revises the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) for CY 2012 to implement applicable statutory requirements and changes arising from our continuing experience with this system. In this final rule with comment period, we describe the changes to the amounts and factors used to determine the payment rates for Medicare hospital outpatient services paid under the OPPS. In addition, this final rule with comment period updates the revised Medicare ambulatory surgical center (ASC) payment system to implement applicable statutory requirements and changes arising from our continuing experience with this system. In this final rule with comment period, we set forth the relative payment weights and payment amounts for services furnished i...
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... natural disasters that would be handled on a case-by-case basis. We also solicit comment on a fourth... hospital's or CAH's inpatient or emergency department (POS 21 or 23) during the EHR reporting... We do not believe that OTC medicines will be routinely electronically prescribed and pr... IT Survey: http://www.himss.org/content/files/2008_HA_HIMSS_ambulatory_Survey.pdf). However, we ...