Author: trident500
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Analytics: A possible way to domesticate wild health data
Analytics offer some parallels to the rise of agriculture about 12,000 years ago, according to Brian Dixon, assistant professor of health informatics at Indiana University and research scientist with the Regenstrief Institute.
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Some Meaningful Use menu objectives more popular with docs
Some of the menu objectives available for Meaningful Use attestation are more popular with eligible professionals than others, according to an analysis of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services data by San Antonio, Texas-based electronic health record vendor Sevocity. read more
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Survey: Small, Mid-Sized Hospitals Slow on ICD-10 Implementation
According to a recent survey from the Plantation, Fla.-based coding vendor, Health Revenue Assurance Holdings (HRAA), one-in-five small-to-midsized hospitals have not begun education or training practitioners for the shift to the ICD-10 code-set. HRAA found that half of these hospitals are not in-tune with the official Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ICD-10 transition…
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CMS: More Than 85 Percent of Hospitals are Participating in Meaningful Use Incentive Programs
More than 85 percent of eligible hospitals are participating in the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs, and more than 75 percent have received incentive payments for meaningfully using electronic health record (EHR) technology as of March 2013, according to a fact sheet released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the…
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EHR and HIT News for April 24th
Today’s EHR and HIT News for today, April 24th, includes updates from Patient Logic on the release of their next generation Physician Documentation system, as well as news from athenahealth on the launch of athenahealth Marketplace. Patient Logic Launches Next-generation Physician Documentation System Patient Logic has announced general availability of Physician Documentation, the first installment…
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Women promise new tide for health IT
In health IT, it's a man's world. Although women account for more than 47 percent of the U.S. labor force, they hold a paltry 25 percent of senior health IT roles nationwide. Don't get used to this trend, however, say female industry leaders who are working to make the realm of information technology more accessible…
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Adult day care centers tally big Medicaid costs
Not a wheelchair or walker was in sight at these so-called social adult day care centers. Yet the cost of attendance was indirectly being paid by Medicaid, under Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s sweeping redesign of $2 billion in spending on long-term care meant for the impaired elderly and those with disabilities.
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Optimizing Electronic Medication Administration Records
In June, BIDMC goes live with Electronic Medication Records (EMAR) on one ward to be followed by 3 other wards, ensuring we meet our 10% Meaningful Use Stage 2 target by the reporting period October 1-December 31, 2013.
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Audits find organizations unaware of new data, privacy rules
Simply knowing all the rules could prevent many of the problems plaguing data security and privacy among healthcare providers and insurers.
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News 4/24/13
Top News Nextgov uncovers a scathing internal Pentagon memo that says DoD’s plans to acquired commercial off-the-shelf software fly directly in the face of the President’s call for a joint DoD-VA EHR based on open standards.