Featured Report: Facing U.S. Health Care's Doctor Segregation

Facing U.S. Health Care's Doctor Segregation

Bloomberg Business Week Dec,31,2013 by:+John Tozzi Is the U.S. health-care system segregated? Not in the sense that it was 50 years ago, when many hospitals had separate wards for blacks and whites. Such overt discrimination by doctors and hospitals ended with the civil rights movement, with a nudge from Medicare. Yet "de facto segregation" remains in practice, according to research published Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. When minority patients get medical care, they are more likely to see doctors who are themselves people of color. And minority doctors disproportionately care for the poor, Medicaid patients, and non-English speakers. Read More

North American Health IT Market To Reach $31.3B by 2017

iHealthBeat Jan,02,2013 by:+Staff The North American health IT market is estimated to reach $31.3 billion by 2017, up from $21.9 billion in 2012, according to a recent report from Research and Markets, Healthcare IT News reports. Key Findings The report estimated that the North American health IT market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 7.4%. According to the report, the U.S. held 72.6%, the highest share, of the North America health IT market and is projected to reach $22.6 billion by 2017, growing at a CAGR of 7.2%. Read More

Health I.T. vs. Influenza

Health I.T. vs. Influenza

HealthDataManagement Nov,01,2013 by:+Elizabeth Gardner One of the influenza strains that afflicted New Yorkers in 2012 was so sneaky that it even fooled Pascal Imperato, M.D., the former head of the city's health department, a renowned expert on infectious diseases, and now dean of the school of public health at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. 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.