Tag: patient engagement
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CMS rule would expand Medicare payment for telehealth
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed a policy change to the 2014 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule that would expand payment for telehealth services, according to a CMS announcement…. read more From: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/cms-rule-would-expand-medicare-payment-telehealth/2013-07-10?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss
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MeHI Awards $75K Grant for HIE Expansion
Network Health, a nonprofit health plan that delivers health coverage to more than 215,000 Massachusetts residents, has received a $75,000 grant to implement a partnership with Brockton Neighborhood Health Center (BNHC) on the Massachusetts Health Information Highway (Mass HIway), the statewide HIE network. The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative’s MeHI has awarded the grant to make the…
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Survey Finds Electronic Health Records Key to Transcriptionists’ New Career Paths
New speech and language processing technologies have dramatically changed the traditional work of medical transcriptionists, the health information professionals who prepare the records of patients’ health stories from clinicians’ dictations. Eighty-seven percent of medical transcriptionists indicated that in order to transition to documentation roles in electronic health records (EHR), new skills and knowledge gaps need…
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What if health IT ruled the world?
In a lighthearted post on The Health Care Blog, Jaan Sidorov, M.D., postulates on the future of healthcare if technology runs amok–zombie style. The scenarios are based on true stories and real… read more Source: What if health IT ruled the world?
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Proposed 2014 fee schedule recommends changes to Meaningful Use program
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' proposed 2014 physician fee schedule, unofficially released July 8, includes several suggested changes to the Meaningful Use incentive program. read more From: http://www.fierceemr.com/story/proposed-2014-fee-schedule-recommends-changes-meaningful-use-program/2013-07-10?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss
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Job changes coming for transcriptionists
Nearly 90 percent of medical transcriptionists say that transitioning to documentation roles with electronic health records means that gaps in skills need to be identified and new career paths charted, according to new a study. read more …read more Source: Job changes coming for transcriptionists
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Meaningful Use Will Force Doctors into ACOs
They have made this mu reporting so bad….as our doctor says…they do not want doctor’s to practice by themselves…They are doing all they can to get them into ACOS… The above is a quote from an EMR and HIPAA reader who emailed me about the meaningful use requirements. The conclusion was what really caught my…
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Bundled Payment Analytics by DataGen
The federal healthcare reform law has many hospitals evaluating new delivery and reimbursement models, including bundled payments. But how do you identify wh…
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Study: Popular search engines share search data about medical conditions with third parties
Researchers find that popular websites share search data with advertisers and other third parties. The National Security Agency is tracking your phone calls. And online snoops may be keeping tabs on your Internet health searches, too. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130710/Study-Popular-search-engines-share-search-data-about-medical-conditions-with-third-parties.aspx
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New national survey raises question over long-term success of health information exchange
While record numbers of hospitals and doctors participate in electronic health information exchange efforts, which enable medical histories to follow patients as they move between healthcare providers, the long-term success of these programs is in question. Source: New national survey raises question over long-term success of health information exchange