Featured Report: 10 funny and strange moments in the latest Obamacare cartoon

10 funny and strange moments in the latest Obamacare cartoon

Med City News July,25,2013 by:Veronica Combs The YouToons explain health insurance marketplaces First, bonus points to the Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation for taking a 21st century approach to marketing the Affordable Care Act and health insurance marketplaces. It's wonderful to see a funny, creative and digital-centric approach to explaining health insurance. Read More

Work Group Offers Best Practices on Patient-Generated Health Data

iHealthBeat July,25,2013 Staff Health care providers should have clear policies and procedures for receiving and handling patient-generated data via new technologies, according to a work group studying the trend, Modern Healthcare reports. About the Work Group The National eHealth Collaborative convened a 35-member work group to study best practices and flow rates of patient-generated health data. Last week, the Patient Generated Health Data Technical Expert Panel presented its initial findings to a Health IT Policy Committee work group on patient empowerment. Read Report

CMS goes mobile to tackle price transparency

Fierce Mobile Healthcare July,19,2013 by: Greg Slabodkin The two apps, one for physicians and one for healthcare industry users, leverage 24-hour tracking technology to provide on-the-go financial data. Financial information entered into the apps will help healthcare industry entities meet reporting requirements of the Open Payments program (Physician Payments Sunshine Act), created by a provision of the Affordable Care Act aimed at greater public transparency about the financial transactions between doctors, teaching hospitals, drug and device manufacturers, and other health care businesses Read More

EHR Incentive Program Healthcare Professionals Did You Know? Non-hospital-based physicians and other eligible professionals can obtain incentive payments of as much as $44,000 under Medicare or $63,750 under Medicaid. Under both Medicare and Medicaid, eligible hospitals may receive millions of dollars for implementing and meaningfully using certified EHR technology. About two-thirds (65 percent) of hospitals and 32 percent of office-based physicians plan to enroll in meaningful use programs by the end of 2012 in order to receive the maximum incentives, according to survey results announced Thursday morning. Fewer federal dollars will be available to hospitals and doctors that wait to adopt EHR technology, and failure to meaningfully use EHRs starting in 2015 will result in Medicare penalties. Watch this video about how to register for the EHR Incentive program. EHR Incentive Program Registration Do you need help with HIPAA and HITECH? Then download and Read our HIPAA Guide for for Doctors and Small Clinics that contains HIPAA security regulations and check lists that you can use to start your EMR network.

Wirehead Technology's Healthcare IT Managed Services Healthcare Providers are you having trouble keeping up with the new government rules and regulations in Healthcare and don't know where to turn to get help? Then let us help you Wirehead Technology's Healthcare Managed IT Services will work with you to help you not only understand the rules but put together all the IT services that will help you comply with all the new Healthcare rules and stay with you to make sure your Healthcare practice is always up to date on all of the rules to come visit our Healthcare IT Page