Mary Mosquera, Senior Editor
Mary Mosquera is a Washington, D.C.-based Senior Editor who covers healthcare policy, business and technology issues for all MedTech brands. Follow Mary on Twitter @GovHITreporter.
Mary Mosquera | May 16, 2013 | 08:43 AM | Network Infrastructure, Quality and Safety
Growth opportunities are emerging in new more efficient and innovative business models as the Affordable Care Act produces a dramatic shift in healthcare delivery and payment, according to financial executives participating in a recent panel. The investment... More
Mary Mosquera | April 19, 2013 | 07:17 AM | Mobile/Wireless, Quality and Safety, Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
The healthcare industry has been notoriously slow at identifying methods and tools it needs to reduce costs and improve quality noted a report by healthcare investment firm the Psilos Group, but health reform is producing promising opportunities for investors... More
WASHINGTON | Mary Mosquera | March 15, 2013 | 09:55 AM | Electronic Health Records, Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
With some healthcare providers now into their second year of meaningful use reporting, Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record payments were estimated at $12.3 billion paid to a total of 219,000 physicians and hospitals through February since the... More
NEW ORLEANS | Mary Mosquera | March 5, 2013 | 18:29 PM | Health Information Exchange (HIE)
The Florida Health Information Exchange has put in place a plan for how it will pay for its operations once federal grants to fund state HIEs expire in September. Its strategies include cost management, technology, governance and ongoing stakeholder... More
NEW ORLEANS | Mary Mosquera | March 5, 2013 | 14:58 PM | Policy and Legislation
By 2014, the core operating rules will likely have a major effect on reimbursement and revenue cycle processes and, as a result, payments, according to speakers who represented the payer, provider and banking perspectives at a Tuesday session on the... More
NEW ORLEANS | Mary Mosquera | March 4, 2013 | 19:12 PM | Meaningful Use, Health Information Exchange (HIE)
The meaningful use stage 2 standards are expected to reduce some of the confusion associated with health information exchange. More
NEW ORLEANS | Mary Mosquera | March 4, 2013 | 14:56 PM | Health Information Exchange (HIE)
Unlike many health information exchanges, the Central Illinois Health Information Exchange (CIHIE) is teetering at the tipping point for connecting and sharing data among a large number of providers in its region. More
New Orleans, LA | Mary Mosquera | March 3, 2013 | 20:49 PM
Transition to ICD-10 can have an impact on net revenues, through problems with under-coding, over-coding and contractors. More
New Orleans, LA | Mary Mosquera | March 3, 2013 | 19:11 PM
All-day workshop gives audience new to health IT a glimpse of technology, meaningful use and federal budget issues. More
SAN DIEGO | Mary Mosquera | February 26, 2013 | 08:48 AM | Meaningful Use, Electronic Health Records, Mobile/Wireless
San Diego-based Humetrix has expanded the ways patients and physicians can exchange health records via its iBlueButton app using not only iPhones and iPads but also Android devices with secure Quick Response code to transfer the patient's Blue Button... More
WASHINGTON | Mary Mosquera | February 18, 2013 | 15:39 PM | Meaningful Use, Electronic Health Records
The enhanced set of protections finalized in the omnibus HIPAA privacy and security rule released Jan.17 now becomes the new baseline for anyone who handles health information. It doesn't change meaningful use requirements, but together the two may drive... More
WASHINGTON | Mary Mosquera | February 12, 2013 | 10:54 AM | Meaningful Use, Electronic Health Records, Quality and Safety
At the National Health Policy Conference in Washington this past week, officials from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the National Institute of Standards and Technology made the case that EHRs must be usable -- and useful -- lest the... More
