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7 SCINTILLATING BENEFITS OF HIRING IN-HOUSE MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONISTS

There are lots of medical transcription companies that opt for outsourcing medical transcriptionists instead of in-house medical transcriptionists. In this article, we look at various benefits derived by an organization, if they opt for in-house medical transcriptionists. Medical Transcriptionist is one of the most demanding jobs present in the market. With the help of Medical Transcription services, medical practitioners can lessen their burden of electronic documentation for all patient records. [...]

 

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Obama On Health Insurance Reform: 'I Won't Go Back' (State Of The Union Excerpts)

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 [...]

 

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Building an HIE with minimal IT or know-how

The Western Washington Rural Health Care Collaborative (WWRHCC) has a formidable challenge. The nonprofit health network comprising 10 critical access hospitals (CAHs) serves some 288,000 residents who for the most part are elderly and uninsured, underinsured, or are Medicare/Medicaid beneficiaries. Access to specialists such as orthopedic doctors or cardiologists is difficult for a population living in an isolated and underfunded region, said Andrea Perkins-Peppers, HIM/IT director for Forks Community Hospital. “Being [...]

 

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Health America, Preferred Primary Care Physicians partner on patient-centered care

HealthAmerica and Preferred Primary Care Physicians have launched a new pilot program aimed at providing more coordinated and patient-centered primary care and improved communications among patients, physicians and care teams. Preferred consists of 32 board-certified physicians and five physician extenders specializing in internal medicine and family practice. It has 14 practice locations in the South Hills and three locations in Uniontown in Fayette County. In addition, Preferred offers state-of-the-art outpatient [...]

 

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Regulatory compliance officers need not fear open source software in medical devices or mission-critical healthcare IT systems

I spent the past few days in Boston at the Harvard Medical School Conference Center speaking audiences at the Medical Device Connectivity Conference (I presented lectures on how to design next-generation medical devices and gateways). Many people that attended my lectures showed a great deal of trepidation when I brought up the fact that they should use open source software (OSS) to reduce cost and potentially increase the quality of [...]

 

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Health 2.0 speaker says 'find a way to build a business model'

“Health 2.0 has the promise to change the healthcare industry,” the conference’s opening keynote speaker Mark Smith, president of the California HealthCare Foundation, told the audience on Monday. Smith also asserted that health reform is necessary for innovation and vital to the success of Health 2.0 entrepreneurs’ business model because the current system is set up to pay for volume. [See also: 11 health IT startups go for the money.] Launched [...]

 

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HIPAA vs The Cloud

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, [...]

 

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U.S. Lays out Incentives in Health Reform Law

WASHINGTON  – The U.S. government Friday laid out incentives for states and people to participate in health insurance exchanges, including tax credits and funding grants for the states.The health regulators also clarified how they will decide who is eligible to participate in the exchanges, a key program under President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul.The exchanges are envisioned as open marketplaces of competing insurance plans that allow uninsured people and small businesses [...]

 

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Meaningful use could include steps toward PCAST exchange goals

By Mary Mosquera The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT could include in the requirements for the next stage of meaningful use some functions that would build toward the comprehensive information exchange system that a presidential commission recommended last year. These functions could include a patient’s ability to download information to a personal health record (PHR), simple search by providers and sharing immunization data, according to an advisory [...]

 

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AHA asks Sebelius to scale back meaningful use requirements

In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the American Hospital Association said it has found that hospitals have significantly less flexibility when it comes to demonstrating “meaningful use” of electronic medical records. “The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology requires hospitals to have in place EHRs that have been certified against all 24 objectives of meaningful use, not just the 19 that the [...]

 

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ICAC Group mulls training gamers in medical transcription

By mtph on June 29th, 2010 The Internet Cafe Association of Cebu (ICAC), a group ofInternet cafe operators in the province, is considering plans to capitalize on the growing number of online gamers as potential medical transcriptionists. ICAC President Felix Cogal said some medical transcriptiontraining centers have considered tapping Internet cafes to become an “extended laboratory” for medical transcription students. “The market has recognized the growth potential of medical transcription and Internetcafes can complement their needs by becoming an extended laboratory for their [...]

 

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Verbatim Transcription

Should doctors be taken word-for-word?

 

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Why We Matter to Health Care

With our nation engaged in dialogue around health care reform, and health care delivery engaged in discussions around what “meaningful use” of EHRs will look like, there has never been a more important time for the health care documentation sector to stand up and demonstrate its contributory value to these critical issues. This means aligning our key messages with health care’s goals and demonstrating why we matter to the health [...]

 

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Physician Practices Follow 3 Simple Steps To Enter the E-Prescribing Era

Find out what percentage bonus you’ll receive from Medicare. Can your physician afford not to adopt e-prescribing? If your practice still hasn’t applied electronic prescription processes, then you could be missing out on a two percent Medicare bonus — as well as preventing prescription errors and lowering consumer costs.Follow these three simple steps to ensure an easy transition. Background: Payers and health plans have pushed for new incentives for electronic prescription this [...]

 

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Delaware seeds Medicaid e-prescribing boom

By Heather B. Hayes The state of Delaware credits a decision a year ago to fund e-prescribing start-up costs for the top Medicaid providers in the state for a 150 percent jump in the number of Medicaid providers now using the e-health service. The top-down approach, which included offering e-prescribing technology and training services to the top 50 Medicaid providers in the state, has sparked adoption of prescribing by one [...]