[medinformatics] Tech Rules for Medicare Quality Groups May Change

[Healthcare Informatics News]

Physician practices in select states are being recruited by Medicare quality improvement
organizations (QIO)*that are helping them adopt health information technology. But some stakeholders worry that
new proposed government rules, if left unchanged, could confuse these efforts. From American Medical News:


The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently proposed new rules
for the nation’s QIOs, which will contract with the agency for a new three-year term that starts in August 2005. The
guidelines cover everything that the quality improvement groups do, from giving physicians advice on adopting disease
management programs to promoting organizational changes within nursing homes that can lead to better patient
outcomes.

As part of the free consulting services that they offer to physicians and other Medicare participants throughout
the country, the firms are assisting doctors in implementing health information technology in an effort to optimize
practice workflow, increase patient safety and lower costs to the federal government.

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