Featured Report: 8 companies working on healthcare cost transparency

8 companies working on healthcare cost transparency

MobiHealthNews Jan,30,2014 by:+Aditi Pai Cost transparency has started off strong this year. In a recent interview, cost transparency tool Medlio’s CEO David Brooks told MobiHealthNews people are no longer on preferred provider organization plans as much as they have been in the past. As a result, instead of simply paying a copay, users are now on high deductible health plans and are starting to care more about the prices of medical services. Read More

Reform Update: Insurers stand to benefit from shift toward Medicaid managed care

Modern Healthcare Jan,23,2014 by:+Paul Demko The movement toward Medicaid managed care fueled in part by the healthcare reform law presents significant opportunities for insurance companies to expand their reach in the programs. More than three-quarters of Medicaid beneficiaries-44 million-will be enrolled in managed-care plans by 2016, according to a recent analysis by Avalere Health. That's a 38% increase over the number covered through managed-care plans in 2013. Read More

Social media and chronic disease: 5 lingering challenges to widespread use

Social media and chronic disease: 5 lingering challenges to widespread use

Med City News Jan,30,2014 by:+Deanna Pogorelc Message boards, blogs and social networks could empower more people to change their unhealthy behaviors and better manage chronic conditions like diabetes and obesity if they overcome a few key barriers, a new report claims. 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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Featured Report: Telemedicine at work: Oregon docs save baby's life

Telemedicine at work: Oregon docs save baby's life

Med City News Nov,12,2013 by:+ Lindsey Alexander The future of healthcare is happening now in Oregon. When a seven-month-old baby had a fever over 102 and a rash, doctors at a small hospital in rural Oregon used telemedicine to connect to Oregon Heath and Science University. She was eventually diagnosed with a serious bacterial infection. The decision? To fly the child to the Portland, Oregon hospital. Read More

7 Things to Know about HIPAA Operating Rules

Health Data Management Nov,15,2013 by:+Staff A feature story in the November issue of Health Data Management examines the rollout of HIPAA "operating rules" to better standardize electronic claims and related transactions, while giving providers more information from insurers. Only insurers are mandated to support the rules, although it's obviously good business for software vendors to also comply. Read More

Programmers Build 'Bare-Bones' Federal Exchange Site Alternative

iHealthBeat Nov,12,2013 by:+Staff Three 20-year old programmers in the San Francisco region have developed a website that allows users to browse health policies offered through the federal health insurance exchange, CNN reports. The site -- called Health Sherpa -- was created as a "bare-bones" alternative to HealthCare.gov, which has encountered numerous technical difficulties since open enrollment began last month (Gross, CNN, 11/11). 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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Featured Report: 10 Ways Health Systems Can Capitalize On Insurance Expansion

10 Ways Health Systems Can Capitalize On Insurance Expansion

Health Insurance Exchange Oct,17,2013 by:+Nikki Parham and Jon Souder The expansion of health insurance to as much as 16 million people in 2014 under the Affordable Care Act could provide a way for the nation’s hospitals and health systems to boost revenue as they face declining admissions, care moving outside of hospitals and reduced government payments. Health systems with large uncompensated care burdens in particular, have much to gain if they can attract and manage these new paying customers. Read More

Facebook and EHRs: A Very Fine Line Just Got Even Finer

iHealthBeat Oct,13,2013 by:+Staff Americans love their privacy. And yet, as the ever-increasing trend of social networking illustrates, they also love to share the facts of their lives. As a result, defining privacy can be tricky in this modern age and often depends on the venue in which information is presented and the form it takes. In today's world of electronic health records, straddling the fence between harmless information and sensitive data is no longer such an easy task, and the repercussions for the slightest transgression can be severe. Read More

IMS: Half of Android health apps have fewer than 500 downloads

MobiHealthNews Oct,30,2013 by:+Jonah Comstock There are more than 43,000 healthcare apps available from the US iTunes store, but only about 16,275 of those are patient-facing apps with “genuine” health content, according to a new study from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics. Furthermore, in an analysis of the Google Play Store, IMS found that 50 percent of health apps are downloaded fewer than 500 times and just five apps account for 15 person of all health app downloads. 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

Featured Report: 90% of Employees Still Have ACA Questions

90% of Employees Still Have ACA Questions

Healthcare Insurance Exchange Sept,19,2013 by:+Bruce Shutan If a recently released survey of Midwest Business Group on Health (MBGH) members is any indication, then HR departments could have their hands full fielding employee questions about health insurance exchanges during the upcoming open-enrollment season. Ninety percent of the 40 respondents reported that employees wondered how the Affordable Care Act would affect their benefits, and what’s telling is that the online survey was conducted as far back as June and July. Read More

Analysis: 205 hospital-branded apps for patients

MobiHealthNews Sept,19,2013 by:+ Brian Dolan It’s been about four years since healthcare providers began to seriously consider mobile applications as a new channel for communicating with their patients. In that time hospitals have experimented with many app-enabled patient engagement pilots, and some - mostly quietly - launched patient-facing apps. Over the course of the past few months MobiHealthNews has been scouring the Apple and Google app stores for these apps as part of the data gathering efforts of our newest report, which launches this morning: The 205 Hospital-branded Apps for Patients Read More

Survey: Most people are aware of EHR benefit but Health Info Exchanges, notsomuch

Survey: Most people are aware of EHR benefit but Health Info Exchanges, notsomuch

Med City News Sept,20,2013 by: Stephanie Baum Pennsylvanians have a pretty sophisticated grasp of their right to their electronic medical records. When it comes to the state’s health information exchange, the level of awareness for goals such as reducing duplicate lab tests is relatively low, even though they recognized the its importance. 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