Jul 8 2014
USA Today reports on this development. Meanwhile, in other health IT news, The Fiscal Times reports on how hospitals are getting more involved in big data collection.
USA Today: Feds Push Electronic Records That Make Fraud Easier
The federal government is rewarding doctors and hospitals for moving to electronic health records - and will soon punish them if they don't - even though these records currently make it easier for health care providers to defraud government-paid health programs, fraud experts say (O'Donnell, 7/6).
The Fiscal Times: Don't Eat That Doughnut: Your Doctor Is Watching
Hospitals are now getting in on the game of big data collection by monitoring their patients' consumer information - like credit card purchases at fast food joints - to identify people with health risks before they walk in the door. And you thought the NSA was a problem. The largest hospital network operating in North and South Carolina, Carolinas HealthCare System, is gathering data on 2 million people to throw into predictive algorithms designed to flag high-risk patients, Bloomberg's Businessweek first reported (Ehley, 7/3).
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 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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