Michael McBride So you want to be a Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH). You’re not alone. Many primary care physicians (PCPs) have embarked on the same journey and for good reason. It’s been shown that PCMHs can lower the cost of healthcare, increase revenue for both providers and payers, and improve patient outcomes. In addition, the technology requirements to be recognized as a PCMH now closely mirror those needed to prove [...]
Despite what you’ve been told all these years, your dreadful handwriting is not the only cause of prescription mistakes. In fact, a recent study suggests that outpatient computer-generated prescriptions may be just as error-prone as your old paper versions. That study found that nearly 12% of the computer-generated prescription—all of them from nonhospital physician offices—included at least one error, and more than one-third of those had potential for harm, according [...]
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) said Wednesday that a proposal to implement “blended” payment rates for Medicaid is “on the table” in negotiations over raising the federal debt limit. This proposal could save the government up to $100 billion over 10 years, the Bureau of National Affairs reports. Currently, the federal government pays separate matching rates to states for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Under the [...]
Maria DeLeon, MD, (sitting) of Southwest Orlando Family Practice says she appreciated that the practice’s information technology director, Jason Casorla, (standing) was in the office during its 2004 electronic health record system transition.primary care practices around the country began attesting to meaningful use of an electronic health record (EHR) system in hopes of earning $44,000 over five years from the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS). The attestation process—a [...]
The cost, physician practice size, and lack of technical resources still present barriers for small healthcare providers in adopting electronic health records and participating in the meaningful use incentive program. Solo practitioners and small practices find it difficult to locate a lender willing to offer them an unsecured loan, said Dr. Sasha Kramer, a solo practitioner dermatologist in Olympia, Wash. Others who try to finance their electronic health record (EHR) [...]
Smartphone health applications made great strides this week. The highest-profile of those, perhaps, is the contest-winning multi-lingual EMR app from Polyglot – but that’s not the only one of note. Take the Withings blood pressure cuff for the iPhone, for instance. This nifty device even garnered FDA approval just this week. The cuff plugs into an iPhone, in which an application measures and records blood pressure, then sends that data [...]
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