September 21, 2011 | In: HIPAA, Hospital, Medicare Law
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...
September 17, 2011 | In: AMGA, CCHIT, EHR, EMR, ePrescribing, Health Care, health IT, Health IT Policy, Hospital
If properly executed, green IT can mean healthcare organizations see fewer bills, contribute lower levels of carbon emissions, and enjoy an easier transition into mandated practices. But it has to be done right. Noble and potentially...
Implementing new technology can be tedious, and the work doesn't stop once go-live occurs. Constant changes are needed to keep IT systems up to speed and better improve their performance. But luckily not every update requires hours to complete. Edna...
September 5, 2011 | In: CCHIT, health IT, Health IT Policy, Hospital, Physician
The Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture have signed a memorandum of understanding linking rural hospitals and clinicians to capital loan programs to help them purchase software and hardware needed to implement health IT. On Aug....
July 1, 2011 | In: EHR, Health, Health Care, Hospital
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...
May 28, 2011 | In: EHR, EMR, Health Care, Hospital
Good news if you use an electronic health record (EHR) system—and a tip on how best to use it, courtesy of the Sage Healthcare Insights survey: Patients feel more comfortable with physicians who use an EHR system, and they believe that the...
May 2, 2011 | In: CCHIT, EHR, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Hospital
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will pay physicians four to eight weeks after they verify that they have satisfied conditions for meaningful use of electronic health records. That means that the soonest that CMS will issue incentives is...
April 9, 2011 | In: EHR, EHR companies, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Hospital
I knew when I couldn't find a parking spot that life would never be the same. The day had finally arrived: September 14, 2010. As I left for work that morning, I told my wife not to expect me for dinner—maybe not even for breakfast the next...
April 6, 2011 | In: AMGA, ARRA, health IT, Health IT Policy, Hospital, Physician
The Managed Care Executive Group, a national organization of U.S. senior health plan executives, met last week in Arizona to discuss the top issues that health plans face in 2011. The 22nd Annual Forum, lead by industry thought leaders such as...
March 23, 2011 | In: EHR, EHR companies, Electronic Medical Records, Health, Health Care, Hospital
Four years ago, pediatrician Jeffrey T. VanGelderen and his partner at the Children's Medical Group of Saginaw Bay in Michigan were looking for an EHR for their practice. Before shopping, they had a difficult decision to make: Find an EHR...
March 18, 2011 | In: Hospital, Medical Billing, Medical Billing Errors
The Department of Health and Human Services on March 17 will publish a proposed rule enabling federal funds to be used for state Medicaid fraud control units to conduct mining of their states' Medicaid claims data. The rule, from the HHS Office of...
March 17, 2011 | In: EHR, EMR, Hospital, Medicare Incentive
By Derek Greenwood When it comes to patient management, many practitioners believe it is something akin to a black art steeped in mystery — a kind of “voodoo” that few can understand or master. Some believe it doesn’t matter what they do...
March 17, 2011 | In: Health, Health Care, health IT, Hospital
Chances are, you agree with your patients on key requirements for information technology (IT) to increase the quality, safety, and cost-efficiency of care, as well as core privacy protections, according to results of a national survey released by...
February 15, 2011 | In: Health, Health Care, Hospital, Medical Coding
By Mary Agnes Carey and Christopher Weaver KHN Staff Writers Critics quickly pounced on President Barack Obama’s proposal to head off scheduled cuts in Medicare payments to doctors, saying his funding method would cause serious problems. In...
February 8, 2011 | In: EMR Stimulus Package, Health IT Policy, HITECH Act, Hospital
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), recently signed into law by President Obama, provides welcome news to technology suppliers who are facing a 0.1 percent 2009 U.S. growth rate, according to new research from IDC's Industry Insights...
