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 |
In order to garner better insight into this issue, a recent article published by Fierce Health IT features testimony from several CIOs to understand what these officials might have done differently in their profession if they had the opportunity.
By Lawrence G | April 17, 2012 | 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 |
The crux of the 2012 HIMSS Analytics Report: Security of Patient Data indicates that enhanced measures need to be taken to optimize patient security.
By Lawrence G | April 13, 2012 | Healthcare IT |
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 American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has been very vocal in recommending that medical facilities across the country do their best to implement ICD-10 provisions as quickly as possible, regardless of the deadline extension.
By Lawrence G | April 12, 2012 | Healthcare Laws and Regulations |
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a proposed rule on April 9th to delay the compliance date for ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition) by one year, to October 1, 2014. The rule would also add a requirement for NPI (National Provider Identifier).
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has expressed its preference for “no delay”
By Lawrence G | April 11, 2012 | Healthcare Laws and Regulations, Medical Billing Software |
While the ICD-10 implementation deadline was in limbo for multiple weeks, HHS recently came forth to propose a concrete one-year extension of the original start date, meaning that healthcare providers would have until October 2014 to get the necessary coding metrics in order.
By Lawrence G | April 11, 2012 | Healthcare Laws and Regulations |
