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Long-term care's digital moment?...Proposed new rules for long-term care released…could spur an uptake of electronic health records by nursing homes across the country…

manager (Cathedral Henderson) at a Veterans Affairs medical center in Georgia is on leave with pay following his indictment on 50 counts of ordering his staff to falsify medical records of veterans waiting for outside medical care....first round of criminal charges stemming from a wait-times scandal...

Healthcare Management Systems Modernization program is spending $11 billion to transition to a new EHR system, which will support more than 9.7 million beneficiaries,...The current EHR system serves patients and clinicians in 2,300 locations around the world,.." Our primary goal is to support our medical teams and administrators...with reliable tools to support patient safety, high quality care and access to care when they need it,"...

expanding Medicaid...is being met with...skepticism from policy and patient advocacy insiders...state and local providers would be expected to chip in to help cover costs...Doctors are concerned about ...relying on them to chip in funds once the federal match drops below 100%. "Reimbursement for Medicaid is not really profitable as it is, and if you add an additional tax, providers will have to raise prices, so this would be a tax on the sick,"

third stage of meaningful use,..the requirements for greater participation of doctors and hospitals, is now coming under even more fire than the program has seen in the past…requires providers to send electronic summaries for 50 % of patients they refer…,receive summaries for 40% of patients that are referred...reconcile past patient data with current reports for 80% of such patients.

Many more Nevadans than expected have enrolled in Medicaid after Gov. Brian Sandoval opted to expand eligibility, meaning the state will be paying more than projected once the federal government scales back its support.

None of the 60 hospitals in Nevada met the standards for strong performance needed to make the..Best Hospitals rankings for 2015-16. Renown Regional Medical Center..was recognized last year for exceeding key quality measures…In Southern Nevada, most of the acute care hospitals were rated average in the five common procedures studied.

Boston’s doctors have done it again….U.S. News & World Report assessed about 5,000 hospitals to determine the “Best Hospitals” for 2015-2016, and Massachusetts General Hospital came out on top….runner-up the Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins Hospital at No. 3.

National Community Pharmacists Association is ramping up its support of the MAC Transparency Act with real-world examples of how independents are suffering from below-cost generic drug reimbursements…"Independent community pharmacies should not be consistently underpaid for the products and services they offer,"..

Las Vegas chiropractor (Dr. Timothy Francis) has been disciplined for having sex with a woman who was his student and patient after seducing her by claiming they were married in past lives, according to the Chiropractic Physicians Board of Nevada….on probation for three years,…also undergo testing regarding ethics and the law….