By Steve Spearman – Earlier this summer, the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) published a paper titled Impact of the HITECH act on physicians’ adoption of electronic health records, that analyzed how well HITECH has incentivized doctors to make the leap into EHR.
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By Alex Tate – If you are considering a program to help you with your electronic health records then you will most likely be doing some research. You are going to find that there are a number of programs available. Therefore, it can be difficult to determine which one will actually be the very best choice.
By Frank Fortner – Two weeks ago I was out running with my 4-legged BFF (George) a large, muscular 2-year-old Lab mix. Just as we were getting back to the house, I decided to show him I had another even faster gear he wasn’t aware of. He got very excited about that!
The Robert Woods Johnson Foundation has released a new report looking at the state of Health IT in 2015, The report looks at both successes and failures of national health IT initiatives and assesses what our industry may look like going forward post the HITECH era.
The path to transitioning to ICD-10 to minimize practice disruptions and claim denials will not be easy. We reached out to ZirMed, to ask them to give us some tips to help providers make a successful transition. You can check out their nine tips,
By Paul J. Rosenbluth – It Could Come Back to Bite You in Your Bottom Line! Automating extraction of data from EHRs is an excellent idea. Done right, it can provide a complete data set, something not possible with the sampling methods used in the current labor-intensive hand extraction used for reporting many hospital quality measures.
By Sarianne Gruber – What does it take to scale innovation across a very large enterprise and maximize impact? You might want to ask Marti Nyman. He is the Vice President of Business Development and Commercialization for UnitedHealthcare (UHC). And if you ask Marti what it takes, his answer is the “human touch.”
By Morris Panner – The Internet of Things (IoT) has massive potential to change the way healthcare organizations operate and how clinicians treat patients, primarily because it simplifies the collection and transmission of data. Like businesses in other sectors, healthcare organizations can use IoT technology to manage equipment more efficiently.
By Mike Semel – Don’t believe “We’re from the government and we are here to help you.” After a data breach in 2006 the FTC settled with ChoicePoint for $ 10 million and a 20-year monitored compliance program. Twenty-Years! In 2012 a company that had a HIPAA data breach was forced out of the state for two years by the Minnesota Attorney General.