Blog
When selecting and planning implementation of an electronic health records (EHR) system, healthcare organizations of all sizes have much to consider - just don't overlook HIPAA 5010 or ICD-10 from the onset.
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced last Friday that nearly $20 million will be awarded to 1,655 critical-access and rural hospitals in 41 states and the District of Columbia-based nationwide Indian Country.
The Los Angeles Times printed an interesting article about the rising use of medical scribes - young, often pre-med students - who follow physicians on their rounds to input notes into the hospital's EMR system.
The Personal Health Record (PHR) market is fraught with challenges.
If you've got a lot of money and your reputation on the line in an effort to create a huge paradigm shift in how we as an industry deliver healthcare, you need to create an infrastructure and make available the resources to support this tsunami of social and technological change. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has carefully architected such an infrastructure.
Federal incentives for the meaningful use of EHRs has been a hot topic within the discipline and profession of chiropractic. A fairly recent article in Chiropractic Economics brought up some interesting issues.
With the health IT programs under the stimulus bill hitting the ground running - the regional extension centers, statewide health information exchanges, workforce training and Beacon Communities - Dr. David Blumenthal, head of ONC, aptly said, "It's just the beginning of the beginning." Indeed.
As healthcare providers examine the final "meaningful use" regulations, perhaps too much focus is centered on IT system requirements and gap analysis.
ICD-10 looks a bit beleaguered this week. That's after state insurance commissioners issued a proposal under which health insurers would not be permitted to consider ICD-10 within their medical-loss ratio (MLR) – and physician and hospital organizations backed the idea.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan pegs the EHR market to double in growth in three years, from $1.3 billion in 2009 to an estimated $2.6 billion in 2012. The research firm noted that the HITECH Act's federal incentive programs and healthcare reform are two of the drivers for the uptick.