Modern Healthcare
Oct,25,2012
by: Jessica Zigmond
U.S. hospitals could face as much as $53.3 billion in additional costs of uncompensated care by 2019 because fewer Americans will get coverage under the Medicaid expansion envisioned by the healthcare reform law, according to new findings from the nation's safety net providers. The National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems calculated that figure using data from the Congressional Budget Office, the U.S. Census Bureau and the American Hospital Association to put a dollar amount on what hospitals could expect if states choose not to expand their Medicaid programs.
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iHealthBeat
OIG Work Plan Focuses on Role of EHRs in Medicare Overbilling
Oct,25,2012
On Wednesday, officials from HHS' Office of Inspector General said that as part of the office's investigative priorities for the next year, OIG will focus on how the use of electronic health record systems could be contributing to Medicare overbilling, the Center for Public Integrity reports. HHS Inspector General Daniel Levinson discussed his office's investigative priorities in a video presentation posted on OIG's website (Shulte, Center for Public Integrity, 10/24).
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Health Data Management
Patient I.T. Engagement in Stage 2 is Policy Gone Awry
Oct,24,2012
By: Robert DeFazio
During a presentation at the MGMA Conference, Travis Broome, a health insurance specialist at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, responded to the worries of practice administrators who insisted their patients are not interested in using patient portals necessary to meet Stage 2 meaningful use patient access measures. Broome said practices would have to push the use of portals.
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Fierce Mobile Healthcare
Nuance, Epic team on voice recognition for mobile EHR customers
Oct, 23, 2012
by: Greg Slabodkin
Hoping to capitalize on physicians' growing interest in mobile electronic health record solutions, Nuance Communications last week announced the integration of its cloud-based medical voice recognition with both Epic's Haiku for the iPhone and Canto for the iPad. With voice-enabled clinical information captured from these iOS mobile applications, clinicians will be able to benefit from the same functionality as desktop EHRs, but with more efficiency while on-the-go using the power of their own voices. The Haiku and Canto mobile applications provide authorized clinical users of Epic's EHR with secure access to clinic schedules, hospital patient lists, health summaries, test results and notes, as well as supporting dictation and in-basket access. Now, with voice-enabling clinical documentation and navigation, Nuance claims Epic users will experience increased productivity resulting in an improvement in the quality of patient care
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Health and Wellness Seminars Coming January 2013
Chicagoland Healthcare Professionals:
Are you concerned about your practice can meet the Meaningful Use 1 and 2 regulations? Are your still struggling to understand and complete your EHR network? Do you know if you even qualify for the over $20 billion dollar EHR Incentive program funds? If answered YES to any of these questions.
Then make plans this January, 9, 2013 to attend the Health and Wellness Seminar hosted by Chicago's Uptown Business Partners. These seminars will explain in clear English not tech speak how to understand and complete an EHR for your practice how fund it and real solutions on how to find and IT partner help you complete your EHR and qualify for the EHR Incentive program. The first seminar Understanding EHR will take you step by step on how EHR works and how to create an EHR network. We will be teaching this totally interactive seminar and giving you real solutions to your EHR problem.
So make plans to attend this seminar and get the answers you need to help your practice meet all of the Meaningful Use Rules.
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