Category: EHR

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of Inspector General has approved of a proposed arrangement between a technology vendor and hospitals that would use a “limited electronic health record” to improve patients’ compliance with their discharge plans, and hopefully reduce excessive hospitals readmissions. read more Source: OIG approves of discharge planning program…

Participation in the Meaningful Use incentive program continues to increase, with 2,970 Medicare eligible professionals, 1,399 Medicaid eligible professionals and 33 hospitals joining the ranks of active registrations in the program in July 2013, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services latest summary. read more From: http://www.fierceemr.com/story/meaningful-use-incentive-payments-providers-almost-159-billion/2013-09-04?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

The Meaningful Use incentive program affects even providers who are not part of the program, albeit in an indirect way, an interview published this week in EHR Intelligence shows. read more Source: Providers not in MU program still influenced by federal requirements

The best-known EMRs got that way because they target the masses. About a third of the country’s physicians focus on primary care, with the remainder fragmented across dozens of specialties and subspecialties. It’s easy to see, then, why the major EMRs are primary-care centric. For specialists, the solution is often to use a general EMR…

Eighty-seven percent of all physician practices agree their billing and collections systems need upgrading, according to a new survey. The majority favor moving to a fully integrated practice management, EHR and medical software product, accessible through the cloud on any browser or device. read more Source: Docs flock to cloud to save bottom line

For more than a decade, hospitals have used mobile computer carts or wall-mounts as “the access point” to the EMR. As technology and the products that support technology in the EMR movement continue to evolve at a rapid pace, the challenge continues to grow for selecting solutions that not only work for today’s use, but…

A cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) with integrated revenue cycle management (RCM) capability could be the life jacket that independent physicians are looking for, if they want to maintain independence, a new survey reveals. A cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) with integrated revenue cycle management (RCM) capability could be the life jacket that independent physicians…

When Mike Taylor was shopping for a new electronic health record system, vendors boldly sat across the table from him and said flat-out that they won’t integrate with other EHRs. read more Source: Is the right EHR even out there yet?

Temple Physicians Incorporated, a 400-physician (salaried) academic faculty practice plan owned by Temple University Health System (TUHS), a four-hospital system in Philadelphia, has been moving forward on a number of fronts when it comes to EHR implementation. Frank Erdlen, the group’s CIO, has turned to the concept of pre-load services to make sure the implementation…

I thought I’d do a search for a few Labor Day comics to celebrate this holiday. I hope you’ll enjoy them as well. Of course, my kids already started school last week. This cartoon also reminds me of something I read on Facebook, “Summertime, when parents realize that teachers are underpaid.” It’s been cloudy in…