Here in America, we are beginning to accept the fact that our healthcare system is not sustainable as it currently stands. With an aging population and fragmented, disparate, and oftentimes redundant care, our country is wasting over $910 billion every year (Berwick & Hackbarth, April 2012) on failed care coordination, over-treatment, administrative complexity and other factors.
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Last Tuesday the ONC released results of a two year survey gauging issues of privacy and security of personal health information. The survey concludes that a majority of patients want their providers to use EHRs despite concerns.
Last week AMA, HIMSS, CHIME and MGMA issued statements calling on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to shorten the 2015 reporting period for providers to attest to meeting the Stage 2 meaningful use.
When you invested in an analytics, I’m guessing you signed up for data-driven solutions, not additional healthcare analytics pitfalls and inefficiencies. Yet that’s exactly what your health system is dealing with — problems and inefficiencies that keep popping up when all you really want to focus on is improving quality and cost.
Health Information Exchange (HIE) is happening every minute of every day. Your personal health information is moving and being viewed to improve the quality of your healthcare and lower the costs. Here’s what’s happening to make that reality.
Eligible hospitals and CAHs must successfully attest to demonstrating meaningful use by November 30 to receive a 2014 incentive payment. Hospitals participating in the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program need to refer to their state deadlines for attestation.
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 good about sharing their thought on the issues of today. Here are the top read and shared guest posts of October.
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.
Health Information Exchange (HIE) is happening every minute of every day. Your personal health information is moving and being viewed to improve the quality of…