Tag: Health IT
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Contact Precautions used to prevent spread of infections create negative perception of care
Patient satisfaction has an increasing impact on hospitals’ bottom lines, factoring into Medicare reimbursement of hospital care. A new study finds patients placed in Contact Precautions (Contact Isolation) were twice as likely to report perceived problems with care compared to patients without Contact Precautions, placing the common infection control practice at odds with hospital interests.…
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Siemens Meaningful Use Solutions – CentraState Medical Center, Neal Ganguly
Neal Ganguly, VP and CIO of CentraState Healthcare System, discusses his experience working with the Health IT implementation and professional services perso… Video Rating: 0 / 5 CMS Audits & State 2 Meaningful Use January 17, 2013 Johnson County Community College Overland Park, KS 1. “CMS Audits” Surviving and OCR HIPAA Audit Wendy B… Video…
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Readers Write: Meaningful Use to the Maximum: Keeping the Focus on the Patient
Meaningful Use to the Maximum: Keeping the Focus on the Patient By Gary Hamilton Across the country, healthcare organizations are evaluating their ability to meet the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Meaningful Use (MU) requirements. Data recently released by CMS revealed that more than 23,000 family physicians became first-time “meaningful users” last year,…
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Readers Write: Provider Charges: An Excellent Start
Provider Charges: An Excellent Start By Data Nerd Any data nerd worth his or her salt will tell you that a thorough analysis starts with vetting, mining, scrubbing, and purging compilations of data. Most of my time on any analysis project is spent understanding the context and cleansing data to the point that I can…
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The Top Fitness Apps You Should Know About | The Sync Up
Sure, using your iphone as a portable gym can’t replace everything a real live trainer can offer, but it’s a great and inexpensive way to get fit, pretty muc…
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Two of three Stage 1 attesters have 2014 edition certified products available
Vendors slowly but surely are moving to 2014 certification criteria needed for Stage 2 of Meaningful Use, according to a recent blog post published by officials at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. read more Source: Two of three Stage 1 attesters have 2014 edition certified products available
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BREAKING NEWS: CMS Releases Spending Numbers: Medicare Spending Slows Considerably
On Sep. 18, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the most recent statistics on healthcare spending, with the agency noting that the first phases of implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) slowed Medicare spending in 2012. On Sep. 18, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the…
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EpicUGM Insights, Announcements (Epic API), and Pictures
This week has been the annual user group for Epic EHR users, otherwise known as Epic UGM. @VinceKuraitis aptly noted that the Epic user conference had 15k attendees and yet it only produced 188 tweets the first day of the conference. I’m not sure if this is a reflection of Epic users view of social…
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Trust must be mutual for patient engagement to work
It seems fitting that this week’s 2013 Consumer Health IT Summit, designed to “equip and empower patients to better manage their health in the digital age,” is being held on the eve of HIPAA’s Sept. 23, 2013, compliance deadline, which ushers in increased privacy and security requirements. I fear, though, that patients may be receiving…
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Leveraging Big Data to Improve the Standard of Care
At the 2013 iHT2 Health IT Summit in New York City, Richard Tayrien, D.O., chief health information officer (CHIO) at the Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), the Nashville-based operator of 162 hospitals nationwide, shared his organization’s experiences of using big data to improve the standard of care. It was impressive to say the least. Happy…