Featured Report: What the car industry can teach healthcare about appealing to millennials

What the car industry can teach healthcare about appealing to millennials

Med City News Aug,29,2013 by:+Veronica Combs If I didn't know several people who fit this trend, I wouldn't believe that many millennials are completely uninterested in driver's licenses and owning a car. I listened to an interview this morning about how car makers are trying to change this attitude. Noah Nelson of Turnstyle News and NPR's Sonari Glinton talked with technologists from several car makers about how they are changing cars to fit young people's expectations of technology. I saw three similarities between the challenges car makers face and the ones healthcare leaders are trying to figure out. First, the car makers' strategy. Read More

Consumer coalition plan tackles health disparities for MU Stage 3

Fierce EMR Aug,26,2013 by:+Marla Durben Hirsch The Consumer Partnership for eHealth, a coalition of patient, consumer and labor organizations, this month published its plan to address health disparities in Meaningful Use Stage 3 and beyond. The plan focuses on data collection and use to identify disparities; language, literacy and communication; and care coordination and planning. It integrates disparities reduction with other Stage 3 criteria to improve the identification and understanding of disparities while improving care. Read More

Some employers penalizing workers for e-cigarette use

ModernHealthcare.com Aug,29,2013 by:Steven Ross Johnson A growing number of employers, including UPS and Wal-Mart Stores, have decided that electronic cigarettes are an unhealthy habit rather than a stop-smoking tool and are imposing tobacco-use penalties on employees who use them. 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.

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