Author: trident500
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Readers Write: The Cost Savings Realized by Single-Platform Solutions
The Cost Savings Realized by Single-Platform Solutions By Deborah Kohn Medicare cutbacks, increased mergers and acquisitions, and declining revenues and margins are daily realities for healthcare provider organizations. Yet so are costly and often mandatory IT initiatives, such as replacing or implementing electronic health and financial record (EH&FR) systems, integrating and securing the next mobile…
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CHIME Time: EHR implementers face new challenges
Here in Iowa, we like to get going early. That’s particularly the case with my hospital.
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ONC proposes EHR vendor fee
Citing the crush of an increasing workload and dwindling government funding, the Office of the National Coordinator has proposed a health IT user fee that would be imposed on health IT vendors who certify their products through the ONC Health IT Certification Program. The HIMSS EHR Association opposes ONC’s proposal
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Aprima Partners with ClearDATA to Host EHR/PM Solutions on HIPAA Compliant Cloud Computing Platform
ClearDATA has announced a partnership with Aprima Medical Software to provide HIPAA-compliant cloud hosting of Aprima’s EHR/PM/RCM software and services solutions. ClearDATA fully supports the new HIPAA Omnibus Rule which states that all companies providing services associated with hosting, storage, backup, or transmission of patient information must sign a Business Associate Agreement along with the…
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Need Point of Care EMR Documentation to Meet Future EMR Documentation Requirements
As part of my ongoing writing about what people are starting to call the EHR Backlash , I started to think about the shifting tides of EMR documentation. One of the strongest parts of the EHR backlash from doctors surrounds the convoluted documentation that an EMR creates. There is no end to the doctors who…
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Ohio Gov. vows to keep trying on Medicaid expansion; Ark. lawmakers near key votes on issue
The Ohio House is dropping expansion from Gov. John Kasich’s budget while he says hospitals and other stakeholders must help in the effort to expand the health care program for low-income people. Meanwhile, supporters of an expansion try to rally support in Arkansas.
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CCS Medical named winner in national Competitive Bidding Program of CMS
CCS Medical, a leading provider of home delivery medical equipment and supplies, announced today that it has been named a winner in the national Competitive Bidding Program of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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Painful side effects
Abuse of prescription painkillers causes more fatalities than heroin and cocaine combined. Yet efforts to stop the Medicare fraud that puts drugs on the black market aren’t working as they should.
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Obama budget would replace SGR formula, boost Medicaid, mental health
Among the changes included in the president’s 2014 budget blueprint are the elimination of the SGR formula to set Medicare physician payment rates, and funding boosts for mental health and food and drug safety. The proposal also delays funding cuts to hospitals that treat the uninsured.
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Morning Headlines 4/12/13
New ONC fee proposal scares health IT sector ONC releases its budget plan for 2014, which includes a 28 percent increase in funding and a proposal to introduce a new fee structure for EHR vendors. athenahealth Inc. vs CareCloud Corporation athenahealth has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against competitor CareCloud citing a thirteen year old…