September 3, 2010 | In: Economic Stimulus, Health Care, Physician, health IT
This week brought another snapshot of how not-for-profit hospitals fared last year as unemployment climbed and shaken markets dropped sharply before beginning to recover. Moody's Investors Service published the median financial performance for about...
September 3, 2010 | In: EMR Stimulus Package, Economic Stimulus, Health Care
Transparency has become a hot issue and goal for governments lately, most recently in California following the scandal that rocked the city of Bell, which was spending $1.6 million annually on salaries for three city employees. The alarming revelation...
September 1, 2010 | In: Medical Billing, Medical Billing Errors, Medical Transcription, Physician
When it comes to the practice of medical billing, precision is absolutely paramount to ensuring that payment from claims submitted to insurance companies, or respective administration entities, is received by the doctor or other licensed health care...
August 31, 2010 | In: CCHIT, EHR, Electronic Medical Records, Health Care, Health IT Policy, Hospital, health IT
As part of health system reform, insurance companies are facing limits on how much they can deduct executive pay from their taxes -- limits similar to what the government put on troubled banks that took TARP money. Until the March enactment of the...
August 30, 2010 | In: E-Prescription, Economic Stimulus, Electronic Prescription, Health Care, ePrescribing
The Obama administration used about half of a 50-page report on innovations targeted by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to underscore the importance of health and medical IT to the nation’s economic future. The stimulus legislation, passed...
August 27, 2010 | In: EHR, EHR companies, EMR, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records
A new report from vendor research firm KLAS Enterprises shows many hospitals don't believe they are getting their money's worth from their acute care electronic health records systems. The Orem, Utah-based company surveys thousands of provider...
August 25, 2010 | In: EHR, EMR, EMR Stimulus Package, Electronic Health Records, Health Care, health IT
Methods: A systematic literature review, based on research papers from 1998 to 2009, concerning barriers to the acceptance of EMRs by physicians was conducted. Four databases, "Science", "EBSCO", "PubMed"and "The Cochrane Library", were used in the...
August 23, 2010 | In: Health, Health Care, Hospital, Physician, health IT
A new mobile phone that provides a quick and simple way to measure, record and send vital electrocardiograms (ECGs) could help millions of people who suffer from heart-related medical conditions, claims its German inventors. The H'andy sana is a new...
August 21, 2010 | In: EHR, EHR companies, EMR, EMR Stimulus Package, Economic Stimulus, Electronic Health Records, Health Care, Hospital
Patients treated at hospital emergency rooms that use all-digital-records systems are more likely to have shorter stays than at hospitals with paper or basic digital-records systems, according to a study by an Arizona State University professor. The...
August 20, 2010 | In: Health Care, Physician, health IT
Once an upstart, Google's open-source Android operating system has grown into a formidable player in the world of smartphones. And with the growth in its user base has come a flood of apps. While the quantity of apps available in the Android Market isn't...
August 19, 2010 | In: E-Prescription, EHR, EMR, Health Care, Physician
Healthcare providers who already use electronic health records urged a federal health IT advisory panel last week to add more goals for improving patient care coordination into the meaningful use financial incentive plan. These include sharing...
August 18, 2010 | In: HITECH Act, Health Care, Hospital, Physician, health IT
Jackie Judd, Kaiser Family Foundation; Mary Agnes Carey, Kaiser Health News; and Drew Armstrong, Bloomberg News Insurers, lawmakers and state insurance regulators continue to debate what may and may not be included in a calculation of the medical...
August 17, 2010 | In: EHR, EMR, Electronic Medical Records, HITECH Act, Health
OREM, UT – A new study from KLAS shows that, while there's no enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor that overwhelmingly satisfies clients, the limited options in that market mean that migrating to a new one may not be worth the cost. For...
August 16, 2010 | In: EHR, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, Health Care, health IT
The AAFP's Center for Health Information Technology has carefully analyzed the CMS final rule that defines meaningful use in terms of electronic health records, or EHRs, and has determined that the final rule contains changes that will benefit family...
August 14, 2010 | In: Health Care, Hospital, Physician, health IT
The American healthcare industry is in the early stages of a transition that will change the way healthcare is researched, delivered, paid for, marketed, prescribed, tracked and consumed. And it's long overdue. Among the trends accelerating this sea...
August 13, 2010 | In: E-Prescription, Health, Health Care, health IT
Federal programs are giving physicians an incentive to use electronic prescribing systems, but a recent study found that other factors may be giving physicians a disincentive to use the technology to its full potential. The Center for Studying Health...
