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CMS Takes Steps Toward Interoperability with Release of Data Element Library

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practice Management, Health Information Technology (HIT), Practitioners
June 28, 2018
This week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the agency’s first Data Element Library (DEL). The DEL is a new CMS database that supports the exchange of electronic health information. Using this free, centralized...

14th Annual LTPAC HIT Summit Takes Steps Toward Interoperability in a Value-Based Healthcare World

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Alternative Payment Models (APM), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practice Management, Health Information Technology (HIT), Practitioners
June 28, 2018
Since 2005, members of the LTPAC HIT Collaborative—a partnership of public-private group of stakeholder organizations representing associations, providers, policy-makers, researchers, vendors, and professionals with a mission to coordinate the...

Society Joins in Comments on CMS’ Interoperability RFI

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Practice Management, Health Information Technology (HIT), Practitioners
June 28, 2018
The Society joined with the LTPAC HIT Collaborative to submit comments in response to CMS’ request for information (RFI) on interoperability. The Collaborative is a public-private group of stakeholder organizations representing associations,...

Telomere Length and Frailty: The Helsinki Birth Cohort Study

JAMDA
June 28, 2018
Telomere length is associated with aging-related pathologies. Although the association between telomere length and frailty has been studied previously, only a few studies assessing longitudinal changes in telomere length and frailty exist.

QI Award-Winning Project Focuses on Role of Risk Assessment in Falls Prevention

Spotlight
June 26, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Every day, post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) practitioners look at problems and challenges and think “What if?” This leads to innovative, creative solutions and, in Allison Gustavson’s case, a Society Quality...

Effects of Geriatric Team Rehabilitation After Hip Fracture: Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

JAMDA
June 26, 2018
Systematic rehabilitation by geriatric interdisciplinary teams has been associated with favorable outcomes in frail older patients. The aim of the present meta-analysis was to evaluate the effects of interdisciplinary geriatric team rehabilitation...

Orthostatic Hypotension in the Elderly: A Marker of Clinical Frailty?

JAMDA
June 22, 2018
Orthostatic hypotension (OH) has high prevalence in frail older adults. However, its effect on mortality, disability, and hospitalization in frail older adults is poorly investigated. Thus, we assessed the relationship between the prevalence of OH...

June 22, 2018

Weekly Roundup
June 22, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join “We want people to roll up their sleeves and talk medicine at this meeting,” says Michele Bellantoni, MD, CMD, about the Society’s 2019 Annual Conference, set for March 7-10 in Atlanta, GA. There is still time to...

Submit Your Most Interesting Topic as a Proposal for the 2019 Annual Conference

Spotlight
June 21, 2018
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join “We want people to roll up their sleeves and talk medicine at this meeting,” says Michele Bellantoni, MD, CMD, about the Society’s 2019 Annual Conference, set for March 7-10 in Atlanta, GA. There is still time to...

Quality Payment Program Look-Up Tool Updated

Policy Snapshot
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Alternative Payment Models (APM), Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act (MACRA), Merit-Based Incentive Program Payment System (MIPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Practitioners
June 21, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated the Quality Payment Program Look-Up Tool with 2018 Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) eligibility and Qualifying Alternative Payment Model (APM) Participant (QP) data...