By Sharon Nichols – Everyone remembers the anxiety surrounding the finalized transition to ICD-10 in 2015, and while ICD-10 Monitor notes that the volume of changes is slowing, the 2019 Spine Surgery coding changes are significant.
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New Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist Episode NOW on Demand with host Dr. Nick and guest Joshua Scalar, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer for BioIQ where they are working to seamlessly connect people to preventative health testing by removing the friction from the system.
By Marty Callahan – Patient consumerism is coming of age. Gone are the days where it’s talked about in strategy meetings and put in quarterly goals, but not brought to action. 2019 is going to be the year you take patient consumerism to the patients, and that starts with strategic communication.
New CTO Talk episode NOW on Demand with host Matt Ferrari. Matt talks to the CTO of Manifest MedEx, David Kates. David is working with ClearDATA to enable Manifest MedEx on the AWS cloud within a secure and compliant platform.
By Art Gross – In a recent warning, the Federal Trade Commission has cautioned consumers and small businesses about the continuing and growing threat of phishing scams. There are many ways scammers may try to trick small business employees with a phishing email. Often times, scammers pose as a member of upper-level management.
By John Danaher MD & Olaf Lodbrok – As 2018 witnessed unexpected mergers and partnerships, robust digital health innovations and continued policy shifts in the healthcare sector, we think 2019 will bring about significant changes in health IT infrastructure with patient data at the center of it all.
What’s ahead for us in 2019? Our experts from BioIQ, Practice Pro, Intersect Healthcare, and Clear Balance weigh in.
By Matt Fisher – After a slow start to the year in terms of HIPAA settlement, the OCR is trying to finish the year with a bang. Since September 20, 2018, OCR has announced four different HIPAA settlements. The nature of the conduct underlying each settlement has varied widely.
By William Hersh MD – Earlier this year, I submitted a response to a NIH Request for Information on a draft of their Strategic Plan for Data Science. My main concern was that while there was nothing in the report I did not agree with, I believed there needed to be more attention to the science of data science.