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By Maggie Van Dyke for H&HN 5 steps for hospitals to prepare for MACRA’s Quality Payment Program The Jan. 1 launch of Medicare’s new clinician payment system under the MACRA law — the Quality Payment Program — promises to tie a greater percentage of payment to performance, and to accelerate health care’s shift to new…
By Modern Healthcare | November 28, 2016 (Story updated at 11:04 a.m. ET) U.S. Rep. Tom Price was nominated to be HHS secretary by President-elect Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the decision. Seema Verma, who helped craft Indiana’s conservative Medicaid expansion will lead CMS. Price, an orthopedic surgeon from Georgia, would be a key part…
By Tamara Rosin for Becker’s Hospital Review Preventing the rate of hospital closures from rising will require hospitals to focus on improving efficiency and continuing to seek opportunities to consolidate, Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove, MD, told Fox Business Network. “Hospital occupancy across the United States is about 65 percent,” said Dr. Cosgrove. “For example, in…
Article by Mary Butler. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on November 21, 2016 and is republished here with permission. If it seems like news reports about hacking and ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations are on an uptick. The infamous Department of Health and Human Service’s “wall of shame” confirms this trend.…
By Mark Hagland for Healthcare Informatics As of Monday morning, advance registration at RSNA 2016 was 48,888—similar to last year’s advance total Attendance at the annual conference of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), which had been dipping in past years, saw a slight uptick this year, based on a preliminary estimate released by…
By David DiSalvo for Forbes Does internet gaming have the makings of a debilitating addiction like gambling? Most likely not, according to the biggest study to date seeking a link between internet gaming and addictive behavior. I doubt it’s exactly what the originators of the term “internet gaming disorder” hoped to find, but in a minute I’ll discuss why it’s probably what…
By Heather Punke for Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality Out of the 2,633 hospitals that received a Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade this fall, 20 received a failing grade, up from the 15 that earned an F in the spring. Leapfrog’s Hospital Safety Grade assigns A through F letter grades to U.S. hospitals twice each…
By Darius Tahir for POLITICO Electronic health record companies are obstructing efforts by specialty societies to gather data that are crucial to the Obama administration’s goal of improving health care quality, leaders of the physician groups tell POLITICO. The data are collected in registries, which are organized to track patients and their conditions and procedures…
By Arun Mirchandani for For The Record There has been a lot of talk recently about secure texting for medication and other types of medical orders. In the past several months, The Joint Commission announced that it was lifting—and then decided to delay lifting—its ban on texting orders while it works with the Centers for Medicare…
Article by Mary Butler. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on September 23, 2016 and is republished here with permission. The breach of Olympic athletes’ medical records by Russian hackers this week again demonstrates the vulnerability of protected health information and the extent to which it is viewed as a target by criminals.…