January 25, 2012 | In: drug, Federal Economic Stimulus Package, Health, Health Care, health IT, HIPAA, Medicare Law
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,...
October 13, 2011 | In: Health, Health 2.0, health IT, Medicare Law
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,...
October 8, 2011 | In: CCHIT, EMR, Health, health IT, Health IT Policy, Medicare Law
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...
October 5, 2011 | In: Health Care, Health IT Policy, Medicare Law
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...
September 28, 2011 | In: EMR, Health 2.0, Health Care, health IT, Medicare Law
“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...
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...
August 17, 2011 | In: EHR, EMR Stimulus Package, Federal Economic Stimulus Package, Health Care, Meaningful Use, Medicare 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...
March 19, 2011 | In: EHR companies, Federal Economic Stimulus Package, Health Care, health IT, Medicare Law
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...
December 8, 2010 | In: Health Care, health IT, Medicare Law
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...
August 3, 2010 | In: Medical Transcription, Medical Transcription Outsourcing, Medicare Incentive, Medicare Law, Physician
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...
June 29, 2010 | In: Medical Transcription, Medicare Law, Physician
A run-on sentence. A misspelled drug. A superfluous comma. Heck, maybe even a split infinitive. Dictation errors can irk word-wary MTs, but should they be forced to overlook such grammatical offenses? Thus begins the debate over verbatim transcription, a...
June 5, 2010 | In: drug, Medical Transcription, Medicare Law, Physician
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...
January 25, 2010 | In: E-Prescription, Electronic Prescription, Medicare Law
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...
December 24, 2009 | In: E-Prescription, Medicare Incentive, Medicare Law
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...
July 14, 2009 | In: Medicare Law
The new law requiring electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) in Medicare is spurring physician groups across the country to adopt the technology. The Texas Medical Association (TMA) is the first state medical organization to join a growing roster of...
