Author: trident500
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Bringing Long Term Care Into HIEs Without An EMR
HIEs will never achieve their full potential if all players in the healthcare process aren’t included in the network. But without an EMR to connect to the HIE, how can a provider participate? A new software package developed by Geisinger Health System and the Keystone Beacon Community Program offers a new option allowing nursing homes,…
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PCI Compliance In The Healthcare Industry
Health care providers are acutely aware of the requirements set forth by the complex network of state and federal data privacy protection laws (e.g., HIPAA) to maintain protected health information (PHI). Yet, it’s been widely identified that the healthcare industry as a whole is sorely lagging in compliance with PCI DSS, a set of Data…
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The Use of Scribes for Clinical documentation
Given the rigors of documentation required for Meaningful Use, quality measurement, and ICD10, some organizations are adding dedicated scribes to rounding and evaluation teams. I was recently asked two questions about scribes. Does Meaningful Use allow the use of scribes? Meaningful Use does not specify who does the documentation, as long as the thresholds for…
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House to hold hearings next week on mHealth regulations
Continuing to pressure the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on whether it intends to regulate smartphones, tablets and mHealth apps as medical devices under the Affordable Care Act, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a three-day series of hearings next week to examine how such regulations would impact patients, physicians and developers. read…
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Moving Forward with Payment Bundling
Since the idea of payment bundling was first introduced 10 years ago, justification for the episode-based reimbursement model has shifted from quality and innovation gains to its proven ability to reduce the total cost of healthcare, notes Jay Sultan, associate vice president and chief product portfolio architect for Trizetto. Healthcare entities testing bundled payments should…
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Oracle Brings Health Data Analytics To The Cloud
For years now, healthcare providers have been inching toward cloud use, with CIOs still divided as to whether cloud applications are secure enough to meet their standards.
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EHR and HIT News for March 12th
Today’s EHR and HIT news includes customer news from iMedicor , Unibased Systems Architecture as well as an announcement from Target Health and LifeOnKey that they are recipients of a $900,000, 2-year award from BIRD Foundation. IMedicor Health Information Exchange And Interoperable Technology Implemented At Greenville Technical College iMedicor today said it has installed its…
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Health IT worker shortage looms
A significant and growing shortage of health information technology workers appears greater than previously estimated, according to a new analysis by PwC’s Health Research Institute. The report, Solving the talent equation for health IT, finds that the healthcare industry is vying for a limited number of IT professionals – and many companies are scrambling to…
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Turning CIOs Into Chief Interoperability Officers
Should every health system, hospital or group practice CIO know that to do interoperability right they need to consider XDS or PIX at the core of functionality?
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Use of HIE Fully Integrated into the EHR
Note – while I was flying to Los Angeles to be with my father , I wrote the Tuesday-Thursday blog posts which will be automatically published this week. I’m focused on his care now and will return to writing in real time once his needs have been met