The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) included $17 billion in incentive payments for the adoption and meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR). The payments began in 2011 and will end in 2016. In 2015, providers who have not adopted an EHR system will face financial penalties. But health care providers should proceed with caution. While the switch to EHR should improve the quality of care and increase [...]
In Medical Transcription, accuracy and dedication must meet the global standards and they are the two key factors that can never be compromised upon at any given stage. The field has vast foothold all around the world and to come up with customized implementations that result in expertly managed, effective projects is quintessential. Over the years the field of Medical Transcription has evolved in a massive way and with revolutionary [...]
President Obama tapped as the federal government’s chief technology officer Todd Park, who had been serving as the CTO at the Department of Health and Human Services. Park replaces Aneesh Chopra, the government’s first CTO, who resigned last month [see Aneesh Chopra Resigns as Federal CTO]. Chopra also had been serving as the associate director of technology in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, a position Park [...]
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 [...]
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, the discoveries taking place in our federally-financed labs and universities could lead to new treatments that kill cancer cells but leave healthy ones untouched. … I will not go back [...]
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 and chief medical officer of Anthelio Healthcare Solutions, to list her top 10 IT wishes for 2012. From interoperability to telehealth, Whittington outlined what [...]
This is the fourth article in a five-part series designed to spur you toward privacy and security policies that will help your organization achieve HIPAA compliance. So far, we’ve covered risk assessment, Trojans andcoordinating information across departments. In this article, we discuss the important step of crafting and implementing policies system wide. When discussing policies related to HIPAA compliance, they must be system wide, not department specific. Just as we discussed collaboration among [...]
HIPAA Compliance: The objective behind Sensitivity in maintaining individual health record of every person is too significant and this is what gets ensured under HIPAA security compliance, which aims at protecting an individual’s information to be obtained, created, used and maintained electronically at a specific healthcare unit or hospital. As a result of this rule, the healthcare unit is responsible for taking every measure to keep this information confidential, secure, [...]
Since the advent of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and the more recent Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009, healthcare providers have worked to create effective and creative solutions to oblige new regulatory compliance requirements. The proliferation of electronic medical records systems gives hope to security and compliance success. Fierce Markets recently published an article explaining how cloud computing-based EMR systems [...]
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