2015

Dolbey Speech Recognition Awarded Best in KLAS for 3rd Consecutive Year

Dolbey’s patented Fusion SpeechEMR ranks #1 CINCINNATI, OH – For the third consecutive year, a Dolbey speech recognition solution was named Best in KLAS. Dolbey earned this year’s Best in KLAS award for its patented Fusion SpeechEMR® front-end speech software. In addition, Dolbey’s back-end speech product, Fusion Speech®, earned the 2014 KLAS Category Leader award…

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ICD-10 Congressional Hearing Panelists Debate Implementation Myths, Industry Impact, and Readiness

Article by Mary Butler, associate editor at the Journal of AHIMA. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on February 11, 2015, and is republished here with permission. Healthcare professionals that work with coded data on a daily basis were well represented in the US House of Representatives’ Energy and Commerce…

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Medical records ripe for hacking

By Tom Murphy and Brandon Bailey for The Columbus Dispatch Those seemingly harmless medical forms everyone fills out before seeing a doctor can lead to identity theft if they get into the wrong hands. Names, birthdates and Social Security numbers can help hackers open fake credit lines, file false tax returns and create false medical…

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Lack of encryption standards raises health data privacy questions

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press for PBS Newshour WASHINGTON — Insurers aren’t required to encrypt consumers’ data under a 1990s federal law that remains the foundation for health care privacy in the Internet age – an omission that seems striking in light of the major cyberattack against Anthem. Encryption uses mathematical formulas to scramble data,…

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Obama Budget Ax Chops Critical Access Hospitals

While everyone is affected by the proposed cuts, they are particularly painful for smaller hospitals, which have tighter margins and fewer options for dropping services or making up the losses. By John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media The Obama Administration’s 2016 budget axe takes a double whack at critical access hospitals. First, the proposal eliminates critical…

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Docs Seek Health Information Management Pros for ICD-10 Prep

By Jennifer Bresnick for HealthIT Analytics The ICD-10 transition is a large, complex, and complicated task for the healthcare industry, but if one thing is clear about the drawn-out process, it’s that many providers are lagging behind where they should be to meet the October 1, 2015 deadline.  Despite a lengthy preparation period and years…

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HIPAA Audits Are Still on Hold

By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee for Govinfo Security OCR Director Reveals Enforcement Plans for 2015 The unit of the Department of Health and Human Services that enforces HIPAA still has plenty of work to do before it can launch its long-promised next round of HIPAA compliance audits, as planned for this year. The HHS Office for…

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An old-school fix to doctors’ tech woes: Medical scribes

by Claire Zillman for Fortune A booming health care profession is helping ease doctors’ frustration with growing digital demands. Three years out of residency, Kevin Hopkins, the medical director of a family health and ambulatory surgery center in Strongsville, Ohio, was buried in emails, phone calls, and patient notes. And as a self-described “poor typist,”…

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