Is Your EMR Too Nerdified?
By William A. Hyman – A common complaint about EMRs is that while they might have technical capability, they might not have real world usability, or be “user friendly”.
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Expanding Patient Engagement Overseas
By David Wright – An effective approach to patient engagement must consider not only the patient’s condition, but their demographics, health literacy, support system, family structure, personal goals and “capacity to engage.”
Understanding Group and Individual Reporting for MIPS
By Matthew Fusan – There are less than four months remaining in the first MIPS performance year and having a plan to monitor and drive improvement in targeted areas is critical to maximize your score and reimbursement adjustment both in 2017 and in future performance years.
Lessons Healthcare Compliance Officers Can Learn From NASA
By Rita Bowen – The recent solar eclipse had all of North America looking into the sky—hopefully you wore the proper eye protection if you did! For this special event, viewers around the world were provided an abundance of images captured by spacecraft, at least three NASA aircraft, high-altitude balloons and the astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
“Human Factor” to Blame for Increase in Ransomware Attacks
By Art Gross – Cybersecurity company Malwarebytes recently released findings from their Second Annual State of Ransomware Report, which provides us with some important insight on today’s state of digital security.
Health IT Issues that Deserve a Second Read – August 2017
The thought leaders in our community are good about sharing their thoughts on the issues of today. Here are the top read and shared guest posts of August that we think deserve sharing again.
5 Best Practices for Centralizing Patient Access
By Jamie Gier – For years, health systems have spent large amounts of capital on initiatives inside the walls of their hospitals, such as large-scaled EMR implementations.
New Data on Skilled Nursing Facilities Use of EHRs Establish the Path for Progress
By Seth Pazinski – Data released by the Office of the ONC report for the first time, nationally representative measures on EHR adoption and health information exchange among skilled nursing facilities. Most SNFs (64 percent) used EHRs to manage patient health information in 2016.
Study Finds That 30% of SMEs Lack an Incident Response Plan
By Art Gross – Cybersecurity issues have become very prevalent in the modern era, making headlines with their disasters and fines associated with them.