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HHS Intends to Delay ICD-10 for ‘Certain Health Care Entities’

The Department of Health and Human Services on Feb. 16 issued a statement announcing its intent to push back the Oct. 1, 2013, compliance deadline for ICD-10 “for certain health care entities:” As part of President Obama’s commitment to reducing regulatory burden, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen G. Sebelius today announced that HHS will initiate a process to postpone the date by which certain health care entities have to [...]

 

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Article Asks: Is Shift Away from RHIOs Wise?

A recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association explores changes in development of the Nationwide Health Information Network. The authors question whether a shift away from regional healthcare information organizations to the use of point-to-point information exchange (such as the Direct Project) and private HIEs is wise. “We write this article to prompt a pause for reflection on the wisdom of this approach. We describe the [...]

 

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HL7 offers domain model for EHRs for free

LAS VEGAS – At HIMSS12 this week, Health Level Seven International (HL7) announced a pilot program that will offer some of its intellectual property, free of charge, in an effort to spur further EHR implementations. “HL7 is keeping its promise to lower the barriers to adoption of electronic healthcare records by making portions of our valuable intellectual property freely available to our stakeholders,” said Charles Jaffe, MD, CEO of HL7. [...]

 

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CMS releases meaningful use proposed rule

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has laid out the details for how it will raise the bar for healthcare providers to qualify for incentives with the release Feb. 23 of its proposed rule for Stage 2 of meaningful use of electronic health records. Among its provisions, CMS will delay the start of Stage 2 until 2014 instead of 2013. As expected, the next stage of meaningful use builds [...]

 

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AHIMA: Time to think about training - and keeping - your coders

LAS VEGAS – The enigmatic duration of HHS’ intended delay of ICD-10 is giving payers and providers hope for a little breathing room when it comes to training coders – but it simultaneously creates a need to ratchet up employee retention efforts. As such, providers need to plan for both training and retention regardless of what new deadline HHS might issue for ICD-10 compliance, said Bonnie Cassidy, AHIMA past-president during [...]

 

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Dispelling myths about EHR and up-to $44,000 ARRA incentive

As you likely know, 2011 was the first pay-out year for doctors choosing to implement EHR (electronic health records) and choosing to take advantage of up to $44,000 in ARRA incentives. Over $2 billion has already been paid to providers and hospitals for achieving meaningful use in 2011. That includes chiropractors. I’ve been fortunate to be involved in the entire process, including interacting and meeting at HHS with many of [...]

 

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HHS Intends to Delay ICD-10 for ‘Certain Health Care Entities’

The Department of Health and Human Services on Feb. 16 issued a statement announcing its intent to push back the Oct. 1, 2013, compliance deadline for ICD-10 “for certain health care entities:” As part of President Obama’s commitment to reducing regulatory burden, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen G. Sebelius today announced that HHS will initiate a process to postpone the date by which certain health care entities have to [...]

 

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HIT Today: Increase your income through quality reporting

In the “real” world, people expect to pay more for something if it’s of higher quality or offers superior performance. That free-market standard promotes higher-quality products and services. The healthcare industry, however, generally does not operate in this manner. Patients have few options for “kicking the tires,” so to speak, before electing to start a drug treatment, undergo surgery or therapy, or choose a physician. This inability to get a [...]

 

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The EHR and ICD-10 Connection

An article by Ron Sterling from the January/February 2012 issue of HBMA Billing. The upcoming ICD-10 start date of October 1, 2013 creates a critical path that can affect the EHR strategy and plans of you and your clients. For many third party billers and their clients, the months leading up to ICD-10 start date will be focused on two major tasks. • Implementing last minute changes to EHR systems [...]

 

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TAT and Quality Guarantee or it's FREE

Companies providing medical transcription must follow highest quality standards in their data services and a shorter TAT as doctors take life changing decisions based on their inputs. In a highly competitive environment, companies that are slack in quality control and do not provide very accurate data in a short time are bound to lose customers. Medical transcription is an essential support service for the healthcare providers and provides important data [...]

 

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Report: HIEs Need I.T. Help, but Shun HIT Workers from Fed’s Training Programs

Many health information exchanges lack staff with strong information technology skills, but are not likely to hire graduates of a government-funded health I.T. training program, according to a report. Advocacy organization eHealth Initiative asked several questions related to workforce issues during its 2011 survey of 196 HIEs, turning the findings into a free issue brief now available. Responding HIEs noted that jobs remain open because there are not enough candidates with [...]

 

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Outsourcing Transcription Helps Lawyers

Expert transcription services help legal professionals to delegate their documentation responsibilities and improve their efficiency profoundly. Outsourcing Transcription their chief documentation assignments let them to sort out and handle their paperwork in appropriate format, and reorganize their workflow. Outsourcing eases the staff of workload and lets transcription firms take care of it. Legal transcription entails preparing legal papers from archived files of various trials and hearings. Nearly all of the [...]

 

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Blended learning as future of education

Much like everything else that worries the enhancement of world and development of lifestyle and understanding, the area of education has certainly seen several advancements and improvements with regards to how to better train a student, make better the deliverance of the correct knowledge, and assist in better conception and understanding of knowledge application. There have been many attempts into new methods like the digital learning and online learning and [...]

 

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'Meaningful use' readiness drops among hospital CIOs

Hospital CIOs are rapidly losing confidence in their organization’s ability to qualify early for federal subsidies for “meaningful use” of EMRs, according to an updated survey from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives. In a November survey, results of which were released last week, just 15 percent of the 191 CHIME members queried said they expected to qualify for the Medicare and Medicaid bonus payments in the first half [...]

 

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Bizscribes - Your One Stop Shop for Transcription Services

Transcription may have started small but with the exponential growth of the industries, the transcription services also started expanding and growing. The arena of transcription services has undergone drastic changes and at the current time, there is a huge demand of good Business Transcription Services. Every industry is thriving on information and therefore the need for good transcription services has increased like never before. Bizscribes understand the importance information for [...]