August 2014

Positive patient experiences linked to quality measure improvements

By Jeffrey Bendix, Senior Editor, for Medical Economics Leaving your patients with a good feeling about their office visit may not just help your reviews on websites like Yelp and Healthgrades.com. It could also result in better patient outcomes. As Americans increasingly use online rankings and reviews when choosing a healthcare provider, a new study…

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ICD-10 queries: Where real time is likely to be lost

By Carl Natale, Editor, for ICD10Watch Are you worried that ICD-10’s granularity will take a hefty toll on productivity? Then you’re not alone. One of the major issues with ICD-10 implementation is the concern that the increased specificity will create more work for medical practices and damage productivity. To document that increased specificity, physicians are…

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Smithsonian Turning to the Public to Help Transcribe Documents

By Jennifer Schuessler for the New York Times The Smithsonian Institution has followed the crowdsourcing crowd, with the opening of an online transcription center allowing members of the public to help decipher thousands of digitized pages of Civil War diaries, botanical labels, correspondence and other documents that cannot be easily read by a computer. Over…

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100 largest hospitals in America

By Dani Gordon for Becker’s Hospital Review Here are the 100 largest hospitals in the United States, listed by number of beds. Note: Data was accessed August 4. The hospital bed counts reported include all medical/surgical and special care beds in children’s, critical access and short-term acute care facilities as reported to CMS by the…

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Hospitals could face penalties for missing electronic health record deadline

From the University of Michigan on ScienceDaily Many of the nation’s hospitals struggled to meet a federally mandated electronic health records deadline, and as a result could collectively face millions of dollars in reduced Medicare payments this year, a University of Michigan study shows. More than half of U.S. hospitals were on the hook to…

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AHIMA, AHA Connect ICD-10, Clinical Documentation Improvement with Better Care

By John DeGaspari for Healthcare Informatics Two healthcare leaders share strategies for clinical documentation improvement at AHIMA CDI Summit There is significant value in Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) in and of itself, according to Sue Bowman, senior director, coding policy and compliance at the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and Nelly Leon-Chisen, director of…

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Exclusive: Apple prepares Healthkit rollout amid tangled regulatory web

BY Christina Farr, for Reuters.com (Reuters) – Apple Inc has been discussing how its “HealthKit” service will work with health providers at Mount Sinai, the Cleveland Clinic and Johns Hopkins as well as with Allscripts, a competitor to electronic health records provider Epic Systems, people familiar with the discussions said. While the talks may not…

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Small hospitals may lose billions by missing EHR deadline

By Dan Cook for benefitspro A large-scale review of data related to hospital compliance with federal electronic health records mandates reveals that most U.S. hospitals have made substantial progress toward EHR adoption. Nonetheless, because considerable federal dollars are tied to complete adoption, many hospitals — especially small rural ones — could forfeit millions as key…

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