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By Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance Emergency department residents do what all physicians do: They document patient encounters into an electronic health record. But the information they’re entering may not be all that accurate. A study published in JAMA Network…
By Laura Dyrda for Becker’s Hospital Review Becker’s Hospital Review compiled 40 large health systems by number of hospitals and 60 large hospitals by bed count. This list was developed based on information as of July 2019. Largest Health Systems…
By Mike Miliard for Healthcare IT News SANTA CLARA – At Health 2.0 on Monday, National Coordinator for Health IT Dr. Don Rucker listed a litany of challenges faced daily by physicians and nurses, and contributing to the ongoing scourge…
By Jacqueline Thelian, CPC, CPC-I, CHCA, CPMA for For the Record Many health care organizations can relate to the following scenario: An insurance carrier, Medicare, or a Medicaid HMO requests medical records for the purpose of an audit. The provider…
By Bruce Japsen for Forbes Walmart is opening its first 10,000 square-foot “Walmart Health” center that features an array of primary medical services, dental care, and behavioral health services as part of a new model expected to eventually be replicated…
By Jackie Drees for Becker’s Hospital Review To alleviate EHR-induced burnout, clinicians should allot time when not seeing patients to learn system efficiencies to “tame the electronic beast,” according to family medicine physician R. Zorba Paster, MD, of SSM Health…
By Shannon Wiggins for HIT Consultant In April, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the fiscal year (FY) 2020 inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) proposed rule. The proposed rule notably includes approximately 1,500 complications or comorbidities (CC)/major complications or…
Harlan Krumholz from NPR At a time when many insurers and health information technology companies are busily assembling databases of hundreds of millions of medical records, Americans find it difficult to get access to their own. If you try to…
By Joe Harpaz for Forbes You may have seen recent news headlines proclaiming that millennials are killing napkins. Or that they’re ending plastic drinking straws, the beer industry or even homeownership. While these stories may be a bit extreme, there’s…
By Rachel Popa for Becker’s ASC Review There were 50 healthcare data breaches reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights in July, more than any other month on record, according to HIPAA Journal. The HHS started tracking healthcare data…