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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...

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...

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...

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...

In his State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama made just one explicit mention of the 2010 health law. Here is a transcript of the few parts of his speech that mentioned health care issues: Innovation also demands basic research. Today,...

It’s easy to make predictions about health IT for the year to come, but what if someone asked what your IT wishes were for 2012? What would you like to see happen most in the health IT space? We asked Wendy Whittington, MD, a practicing pediatrician...

At the third annual mHealth Summit in Washington D.C., major players in the mobile arena noted the impact mobile phones and other devices have and will continue to have both in the US and across the globe. Paul Jacobs, chairman and CEO of...

With Medicare's push toward shared savings and accountable care organizations, healthcare business models are getting more complex, said Shahid Shah, software IT analyst and author of the blog The Healthcare IT Guy. The industry needs software to...

When healthcare transitioned to ICD-9 on Oct. 1, 1984, there was still great confusion 18 months later on how to submit the codes. There was great deal of frustration both on the provider side as well as the health plan side. There was also a huge lack of...

For those employers who've thought about denying OSHA entry at the door of their facility…don't do it. OSHA cited All-Feed Processing & Packaging's facility in Galva, Ill., for 23 health and safety violations with fines exceeding...

Knowing how many diagnostic images a patient has had over a lifetime can help physicians and patients weigh risks and benefits before using more radiation imaging, says Boston emergency physician Adam C. Levine, MD. [Photo by Ted Grudzinski /...

Illustration by Jon Krause after Henri Rousseau Since he was a teenager, Daniel Wolk, MD, a family physician in the suburbs of Philadelphia, has had a passion for protecting the environment. Now that he is physician, he sees energy conservation as...

For health insurers, the soaring popularity of mobile smartphones and tablet devices has created a new platform to connect with members, physicians and brokers. But while the technology offers almost limitless potential, health insurers are in the early...

In the course of meeting Stage 1 Meaningful Use criteria, Beaufort Memorial Hospital in Beaufort, S.C., will have the basic infrastructure in place for health information exchange, which by design will enable meeting the more complex HIE requirements...

The HHS Office for the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology announced today that more than 100,000 primary care providers are adopting certified Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to help improve their quality of care and ultimately lower...