Tag: informatics
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CMS proposes offering patients up to $10M for fraud tips
Many Medicare fraud schemes rely on “patient recruiters” to scour local communities for senior citizens who, knowingly or not, can provide personal information that can be used to generate false bills.
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What’s Next TEDMED?
One of the beauties of TEDMED is that they do a really professional job recording the event and sharing the recorded video with the world. For those who missed it or want to re-watch certain sessions, you can find the full TEDMED session recordings available online . Thanks to Xerox , I was able to…
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EHR use provides Canadian docs billions in benefits
Electronic health records have proven very useful to Canadian physicians in community-based care, helping them to reap more than $1.3 billion in benefits since 2006, according to a new report by PwC. read more
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DoD resistance to open-source EHR ‘detrimental’ to Obama’s goals
Despite the White House’s public desire to use open standards to create an integrated electronic health record system to serve both the U.S. Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, DoD, for years, has resisted such an approach, according to a recently publicized DoD memo. read more
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Better EHRs could help boost doc time at patient bedsides
Just like everybody else, doctors spend too much time behind computers–and not enough time at patients’ bedsides–according to new research from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, published this week in the Journal of General Internal Medicine .
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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…