By Ric Sinclair – At the MGMA Annual Conference in October, Cindy Welch joined me in a presentation to talk about how she overcame challenges that virtually every practice faces today—including higher co-payments, HDHPs, uninsured patients, inaccurate insurance information, staff’s reluctance to ask patients for money, and patients’ reluctance to pay.
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We are pleased to publish Health IT Enabled Quality Improvement: A Vision to Achieve Better Health and Health Care. This paper describes ONC’s vision for…
The recent uproar over Ebola brought HIPAA in emergency situations to the forefront when it comes to what information may be shared and when. The various healthcare facilities that treated Ebola patients were constantly grilled for updates on patients as well as information relating to the movements and other activities of those patients.
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor The job and career opportunities in health information technology (HIT) continue to grow, even though…
One of the ways that HITECH Answers is different from other media sites is the sense of community. The thought leaders in our community are…
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As most organizations have now adopted EHRs, getting systems to work together is the next big challenge on the horizon. Earlier this year, the Office…
Over the past several years I’ve written about the inadequate state of clinical documentation, which is largely unchanged since the days of Osler, (except for a bit more structure introduced by Larry Weed in the 1970s) and was created for billing/legal purposes not for care coordination.
The future of interoperability was discussed and endorsed by a joint meeting of the Standards and Policy Committees. We began with a preamble clearly stating that the roadmap we’re working on is a process not a finished product.