> In its Medicare Part B final payment policies for 2011, CMS has rejected requests from the University of Louisville School of Medicine, the American Telemedicine Association and Mille Lacs Health System (Onamia, Minn.) to expand Medicare telehealth payments to initial hospital care services, subsequent hospital care services and hospital discharge day management services. (See p. 506.) Rule (.pdf)
> Financial advisory firm Marlin & Associates predicts that the health IT market will consolidate into a few large "superstores," led by companies that are most successful in integrating components of healthcare information networks. Possible candidates include UnitedHealth Group's Ingenix, Verizon Communications, AT&T, Microsoft and IBM. Article
> Holy Cross Hospital, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is offering free credit monitoring to 1,500 patients whose data may have been used to open fraudulent debit, credit and bank accounts. -- Read more in FierceHealthcare
> Clinical decision support and analytics company DiagnosisOne, flush with a new $5 million venture investment, has named medical communications veteran Robert Goodman as president. Press release
> UK Health Minister Simon Burns wants the National Health Service to pay more attention to the actual users of IT. Article
> InSite One, a Wallingford, Conn.-based data archiving provider, is going underground, helping Xeikona Medical Solutions of Johannesburg, South Africa, build a medical imaging repository for the mining industry. Press release
And Finally... If you're going to get a vanity plate, you might want to rethink living a life of crime. Article