By Andria Jacobs – The healthcare industry has its share of bad apples. Unfortunately, the fraudulent actions of these rotten apples leaves a very bitter taste in the mouths of millions of stakeholders.
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By Phil Galewitz – Westminster Village North, a nursing home and retirement community in Indianapolis, recently added 25 beds and two kitchens to speed food delivery to residents. It also redesigned patient rooms to ease wheelchair use and added Wi-Fi and flat-screen televisions.
By Steven Posnack – HIMSS has successfully demonstrated testing method, as part of the Immunization Integration Program (HIMSS-IIP), and can serve as an alternative to the current National Coordinator-approved method for testing.
By William Hersh – Last month, the NEJM published a pair of Perspective pieces about the HITECH Act. The first was written by the current and three former Directors of the ONC. The second was written by two other national thought leaders who also have a wealth of implementation experience.
By Sara Rosenbaum – The CHIP offers a critical health insurance pathway for children living in families with modest means. These families’ incomes exceed the basic Medicaid eligibility standard for children but they lack access to employer insurance for their children…
By Dan Ward – In this era of razor-thin margins and rapid changes in reimbursement methods, it is imperative that healthcare organizations capture every charge representing the care provided. and that those charges are properly billed so that they will be paid the dollars they have earned.
By Michelle Barry – Availity recently commissioned an independent research company to survey providers—physicians and non-medical staff, in practices and facilities—about their credentialing process. No one should be surprised that providers are not happy with how it’s conducted.
By Steven Posnack – In 2014, man created FHIR. In other words, that is when the HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard was released as a first draft standard for trial use for implementation in health IT software.
By Dhaya Sivakumar – Whether it’s our mobile phones taking note of our location, wearables recording our heartrates, or websites collecting information about what links we click and how long we spend on a page, humans have inadvertently become large-scale data producers, and the quantity of data being produced is increasing exponentially.