New Guidance Proves Cloud Services Are Business Associates
By Mike Semel – It’s over. New guidance from the federal Office for Civil Rights (OCR) confirms that cloud services that store patient information must comply with HIPAA.
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Interpreting Rules
By William A. Hyman – The ONC released a 257-page Final Rule on Enhanced Oversight and Accountability under the Health IT Certification Program. The first 223 pages provide an explanation of how the ONC reached the decisions they did.
Denial Management: Moving Upstream in the Revenue Cycle
By Glenn Krauss – Managing denials continues to be a thorn in the side of just about every healthcare organization. Traditional approaches to denial management treat the symptom rather than the underlying causes.
Data Silos Are an Underappreciated Medical Tragedy
By Jeremy Guttman – Healthcare reform is very real. Only primary care practices who prepare now will be ready for big changes in reimbursement and quality metrics.
Copay Concerns: The CCM Conundrum
By Susan Lanesey RN MBA – I have the pleasure of speaking with physicians almost every day, particularly primary care physicians in independent practice. Without a doubt, I learn something valuable every time I meet with them from clinical matters to business matters.
Doctor! Doctor!
By Frank Fortner – Will we get incentives, or nothing at all?” are just a few lyrics from the HITECH Train (Crazy Train parody) song written back in early 2011. It’s been five years since the song was written.
precisionFDA’s Next Challenge? Conduct an App-a-Thon!
By Zivana Tezak PhD & Elaine Johanson – FDA is increasingly harnessing the power of supercomputers, the creative and collaborative culture of the scientific community, and novel approaches to technology.
Medicare’s Investment in Primary Care Shows Progress
By Patrick Conway MD – CMS announced the Comprehensive Primary Care initiative’s second round of shared savings results, with nearly all practices (95 percent) meeting quality of care requirements and four out of seven regions sharing in savings with CMS.
Put Lost Revenue From Claim Denials in the Rearview Mirror
By Crystal Ewing – Historically, providers have often treated claim denials the way many of us treat a speeding ticket. We may not be quite sure how much we were actually speeding—we may even disagree that we were speeding at all.