View from the Road: Celebrating Innovations in Healthcare
By Scott Whyte – Periodically I get the opportunity to share with you some of the innovations I see while on the road working to improve healthcare across the country.
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Do Your Patient Statements Pass This Test? A Look at A/B Testing for Hospital Revenue Cycle
By April Wilson – Are you tired of email spam and annoying internet ads? Well, it might be time to pay closer attention to them. That’s because digital marketers know something about human behavior that you probably don’t.
AHRQ Step Up Challenge: With First-Phase Winners Identified, the Competition Intensifies!
By Gopal Khanna – I’m very excited to tell you about the 10 winners from the first phase of the AHRQ Step Up App Challenge. Their stellar work moves us closer to achieving the goal of developing an app that integrates standardized patient-reported outcomes data into clinical care and research.
Escaping Notice, by Laying Low
By Matt Fisher – An interesting argument was posed in a recent post on databreaches[.]net about a lack of enforcement actions from the Office for Civil Rights against small or medium-sized healthcare entities that do not appropriately report breaches to either OCR and/or the individuals impacted.
Do Impending Cancer Registry Changes Remind You of ICD-10? They Should
By Gina McNellis – We’ve already written over the past year about expected changes to the Cancer Registry– and how extensive they are likely to be. No doubt – this is a big deal. Remember the shift from ICD-9 to ICD-10?
Distributed Health Conference in Nashville Delivers on Blockchain in Healthcare
By Don Fortner – After attending four Blockchain in Healthcare focused conferences this year, the best one for me so far is the recent Distributed Health Conference held November 5th and 6th at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
Business Email Compromise Scams – Here to Stay
By Art Gross – Business email compromise (BEC) scams remain one of the most widely used attack vectors among cybercriminals to date. In fact, cybercriminals are finding so much success in exploiting human vulnerabilities through BEC scams that their frequencies have been dramatically increasing.
Reducing Burden and Saving Money
By William A. Hyman – The latest final rule release on physician payments is replete with assertions of burden reduction and cost savings. Without various addenda, the rule comes in at a mere 2378 pages, 2063 for the discussion and 315 for the rule itself.
HHS Chief Technology Officer Announces Health IT Research Project at Indian Health Service
The Office of the Chief Technology Officer within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a contract launching a formal research project focused on health IT modernization at the Indian Health Service (IHS).