Meaningful Use

Continuing Connectivity Struggles Lead to Declining Satisfaction Scores for HIE Vendors

Press Release found at Digital Journal OREM, UT, November 06, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ — Across the health information exchange (HIE) market, providers are expressing dissatisfaction with their vendors as connectivity issues persist. This and other key findings were released in a new KLAS report “Health Information Exchange 2012: Muddled in Interfaces.” More than 200 providers weighed…

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12 Key Issues Hospitals Will Face in 2013

By Molly Gamble for Becker’s Hospital Review In an Oct. 17 webinar presented by Becker’s Hospital Review, Scott Becker, JD, CPA, a partner at McGuireWoods in Chicago and publisher of Becker’s Hospital Review, commented on a dozen of the most pressing issues facing hospitals and health systems today. 1. Hospital-hospital consolidation. As hospitals continue to…

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Voice Recognition in the ED

By John DeGaspari for Healthcare Informatics Why one hospital complemented its EHR implementation with voice recognition How does voice recognition technology affect patient care quality and efficiency? One proponent for its use is Bud Lawrence, M.D., emergency medicine physician director of risk management at the Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, a 250-bed hospital and level-2…

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EHR implementation: How common blunders can alienate your patients

By Pamela Lewis Dolan for amednews.com (American Medical News) Many snafus associated with EHR implementation have little to do with the technology but rather how it is prepared before adoption and ultimately used. When Genesis Ob/Gyn took the first steps to installing an electronic health record system in its seven practices, there was a lot…

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Providers Respond to Holder, Sebelius on ‘Troubling Indications’ of EHR Fraud

By Mike Miliard, Managing Editor, Healthcare IT News WASHINGTON – Hospital organizations are responding to a stern letter sent Sept. 24 by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, which warns against using electronic health records to artificially inflate Medicare and Medicaid payments. The letter – sent to the…

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15 Statistics on How EHR Impacts Physician Practices

By Laura Miller for Becker’s ASC Review Here are 15 statistics on how electronic health records have impacted physician practices, according to the Medscape EHR Report 2012. There were 21,202 respondents in 15 specialties with data collected May 30 through June 15, 2012 from physicians who previously implemented EHR. 26 percent of physicians say that…

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Health Reform Confusion Keeps Consultants Busy

By Gale Scott, Crain’s New York Business The Affordable Care Act’s long-term impact on employers is still uncertain. But one sector is already getting a boost from the law, recently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court: Business is booming for benefits consulting firms. “We’re swamped,” said Rich Stover, a principal with Buck Consultants in Secaucus,…

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2012 Most Wired

By Matthew Weinstock | Data By Suzanna Hoppszallern for H&HN Magazine It’s a bumpy road, but the 200-plus hospitals on this year’s Most Wired list are driving toward meaningful use of health care information technology The road to meaningful use of health information technology is riddled with detours, potholes and yield signs. Yet the 2012…

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The New ICD-10 Deadline

By Scott Mace for HealthLeaders Media When the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in April that the required go-live rollout of ICD-10 coding would be delayed one year, to October 1, 2014, healthcare providers reacted with sighs of relief, jubilation, disappointment, or stoic determination to stay the course—and occasionally, combinations of the four.…

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