Two more data breaches were revealed this week, one in South Carolina and one in Georgia, with the latter involving patients’ protected health information (PHI). Well over a million records have been exposed in several security breaches over the past month.
The South Carolina Health and Human Services Department announced the improper transfer of more than 200,000 Medicaid beneficiaries’
By Lawrence G | April 20, 2012 | Electronic Medical Records News, Healthcare Laws and Regulations, Medical Billing Software |
The Top 100 Hospitals according to Thomson Reuters have been found to be more fully utilizing Electronic Medical Records (EMR) systems, as determined by HIMSS Analytics.
There is a higher percentage of the hospitals in question (including Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, NJ, Baystate Medical Center in Springfield,
By Lawrence G | April 18, 2012 | Electronic Medical Records News, Healthcare IT, Healthcare Laws and Regulations |
A recent report from technology consultants CSC finds that U.S. healthcare organizations lag behind their UK and Scandinavian counterparts when it comes to social media adoption.
The report determined that healthcare is less proactive in adopting social media than other industries worldwide. In the U.S., providers are more likely to utilize social media for marketing than for patient interactions,
By Lawrence G | April 17, 2012 | Electronic Medical Records News, Healthcare IT |
TEDMED, a community of passionate, leading-edge thinkers and doers from every discipline within the fields of health and medicine (as well as from business, government, technology, academia, media, and the arts), held its annual conference in Washington, D.C. last week and asked its 1700 attendees to vote for one of fifty Great Challenges of Health and Medicine which they considered most worthy of thought and attention.
By Lawrence G | April 16, 2012 | Electronic Medical Records News, Healthcare IT |
Prescription drug abuse is becoming an increasingly menacing problem in the armed forces.
By Lawrence G | April 16, 2012 | Electronic Medical Records News |
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that 27 Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have entered its Shared Savings Program, created by the Affordable Care Act to facilitate coordination and cooperation among providers to improve the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries.
The 27 ACOs have entered into agreements with CMS to take part in the program,
By Lawrence G | April 13, 2012 | Electronic Medical Records News, Healthcare Laws and Regulations |
A recent study suggests that twenty percent of the over two trillion dollars spent annually in the United States on healthcare is being wasted. The authors, Dr. Donald Berwick (former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) and Andrew Hackbarth (policy analyst for the RAND Corporation), published their findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
By Lawrence G | April 12, 2012 | Electronic Medical Records News, Healthcare Laws and Regulations |
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted the full set of proposed measures that eligible providers, hospitals, and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) would need to use to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid Stage 2 Meaningful Use bonus payments beginning in 2014.
Some of these measures have not yet been endorsed by the National Quality Forum and are therefore subject to change,
By Lawrence G | April 9, 2012 | Electronic Medical Records News, Healthcare Laws and Regulations |
A report from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics discloses that Americans made less visits to the doctor last year and used prescription drugs less often, despite 34 new medicines introduced by the drug industry in 2011.
The research group’s study indicates that many Americans appear to be rationing their medical care as a result of difficulties in paying for it.
By Lawrence G | April 5, 2012 | Electronic Medical Records News, Healthcare IT |
A study just recently published entitled “Bridging the Chasm: Effect of Health Information Exchange on Volume of Laboratory Testing,” found that doctors utilizing electronic medical records software actually ordered fewer tests.
By Lawrence G | April 3, 2012 | Electronic Medical Records News |
