Should you buy your medical staff smartphones, tablets, or other mobile devices, or let them use their own devices for work? It's a dilemma most CIOs are facing now, with little long-term experience to guide them. FierceMobileHealthcare spoke with two IT executives on opposite sides of this argument, both with reasonable solutions.
With technology changing every day, it can be hard to keep up with best
practices in the social media sphere. One thing's for sure, though; patients
are looking online to find out and talk about hospitals.
In the year since President Barack Obama signed the ground-breaking Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) into law, doctors and health care
facilities have carefully studied new health care mandates, incentives and
compliance issues to understand how the many reform provisions will alter
how they do business.
ODs should e-Rx to avoid future Medicare pay penalties.
Health care practitioners should prescribe pharmaceuticals electronically during 2011 if they wish to avoid new Medicare e-prescribing (e-Rx) payment penalties that are scheduled to begin in the near future, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) warns.
Widespread use of clinical decision support may establish new legal standards of care
Use of electronic health record software is slowly but surely rising in
physicians' offices across the U.S. In particular, more mid-sized and large
practices are implementing EHR systems, according to a recent survey by
healthcare marketing solutions firm SK&A.
Preliminary data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services show attestations and payments for Meaningful Use of electronic health records, while off to a slow start, are starting to increase in volume.
The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) will hold its first annual NYeC Digital Health Conference December 1st and 2nd, 2011 in New York City at Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers. The conference will bring together health information technology (HIT) stakeholders from the public and private sectors—including providers, hospital administrators, insurers, IT vendors, other members of private industry, and government representatives.
In just a short period of time, the NYeC Regional Extension Center (REC) has helped 2857 primary care providers progress toward Meaningful Use—more than half the total number it is subsidized to assist through its federal grant.
You can’t run and you can’t hide — HIPAA audits are coming. HHS, through the
Office of Civil Rights (OCR) recently named KPMG as the recipient of a $9.2 million
contract to develop
You can’t run and you can’t hide — HIPAA audits are coming. HHS, through the
Office of Civil Rights (OCR) recently named KPMG as the recipient of a $9.2 million
contract to develop
Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) has introduced the “Stripping The E-prescribe Arbitrary Mandates (STEAM) Act.” In a blog post, Rep. Ellmers explains that HR 2128 “would prevent Medicare fees and penalties to hospitals and doctors that cannot yet e-Prescribe, and removes e-Prescribing as a requirement for fulfilling the ‘meaningful use’ definition of the Electronic Health Records (EHR) program.
Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would update payment policies and rates for physicians and nonphysician practitioners (NPPs) for services paid under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) in calendar year (CY) 2012. More than 1 million providers of vital health services to Medicare beneficiaries ....
Jan. 1, 2012 is the deadline for the conversion to the ASC X12 Version 5010 transaction standards. To encourage preparation for the transition, CMS has announced a National Version 5010 Testing Week beginning Monday, August 22. National 5010 Testing Week is an opportunity for trading partners to come together and test compliance efforts that are already underway with the added benefit of real-time help desk support and direct and immediate access to Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs).
As Phase 1 of ICD-10 transition comes to a close, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is helping hospitals complete the next stage with its Top 10 list of Phase 2 implementation. While all of the 10 steps must be done in Phase 2 of ICD-10 conversion, they may need to be conducted simultaneously rather than consecutively, notes the AHIMA in its white paper [1].
On July 4th, the Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program launched in Arizona, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and West Virginia. This means that eligible professionals and eligible hospitals in these four states will be able to complete their EHR Incentive Program registration at the state level and receive incentive payments.
Decreasing reimbursement from payers, decreased utilization, and multiple procedure discounts are driving many facilities out of the market, or at the very least, making it extremely difficult to operate in the black. In this tough environment, one answer continually resurfaces:
