Featured Report: Unlocking the Power of Health Data

Unlocking the Power of Health Data

iHealthBeat Mar,27,2014 by:+David Harlow In this day and age, with fewer and fewer exceptions, each of us has a digital footprint as a patient. Each of us has an intentional digital footprint, created by each of us directly and by the trusted others with whom we interact in the real world and online -- through electronic health records, personal health records, personal tracker data, blogs, tweets, etc. Read More

House passes contested 'doc-fix' patch with ICD-10 extension

Modern Healthcare Mar,27,2014 by:+Paul Demko Despite opposition from doctors' groups, on a voice vote Thursday, the House of Representatives passed a one-year patch for Medicare's unpopular sustainable growth-rate formula for physician payments and, in the same bill, extended the implementation deadline for ICD-10 diagnostic and procedural codes for at least a year. Read More

Seven Signs It's Time to Switch EHRs

Seven Signs It's Time to Switch EHRs

Physician Practice Mar,24,2014 by:+Michael Wilson Nothing is worse than being stuck with a crucial piece of software in your medical practice that you absolutely hate. A Black Book Rankings report found that 35 percent of medical professionals report being unsatisfied with their current system and nearly one in three medical providers want to switch. 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: U.S. Chamber looks to fix, not repeal Obamacare

U.S. Chamber looks to fix, not repeal Obamacare

Modern Healthcare Jan,08,2014 by:+Jessica Zigmond The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has accepted that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is here to stay and, rather than continue calling for its complete repeal, will work this year to change what it sees as flaws in the 2010 law, the business group's president and CEO said Wednesday. Read More

IBM helping fix Minnesota’s health insurance exchange while lawmakers plan audits

Med City News Jan,09,2014 by:+Staff MNsure, the health insurance exchange for Minnesota, is scrambling for help with its IT problems, as deadlines for enrollment loom and scrutiny of its troubled rollout continues. MNsure’s board met on Jan. 8 to discuss the latest developments, including an angry letter from Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton to IBM, one of the program’s vendors, and the announcement that Optum, the IT division of health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group, was sending a team to review the exchange’s website issues Read More

IOM model helps hospitals evaluate return on investment of EHRs

Fierce EMR Jan,07,2014 by:+Marla Durben Hirsch The Institute of Medicine has released a proposed model to help hospitals and others assess the potential financial benefits of adopting electronic health records. The proposed framework and model, published Jan. 6, is intended to evaluate a provider's EHR investment by making inter-organizational comparisons, help identify "best-in-class" implementation approaches and prioritize process redesign endeavors. 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.

Featured Report: Seniors Increasingly Go Online for Health Information

Seniors Increasingly Go Online for Health Information

Health Data Management Nov,21,2013 by:+ Joseph Goedert Accenture conducted the survey in July 2013, which is a subset of a larger survey of more than 9,000 adults of various ages across nine nations on the electronic capabilities of medical providers. Results of the U.S. senior population shows 56 percent of surveyed Medicare consumers visited their health plan Web site at least once during the previous two months, with 67 percent saying online access to their medical information is somewhat or very important to them. Read More

Improving Online Transparency Tools Could Boost Low-Cost Care

iHealthBeat Nov,21,2013 by:+Staff An improvement in the quality of health care cost transparency websites and applications could help U.S. residents feel more positively about low-cost health care services, according to a study by Catalyst for Payment Reform, Modern Healthcare reports. Background Research shows that most U.S. residents believe that more expensive health care is better, which has contributed to an unnecessary increase in U.S. health care costs. Read More

No evidence that messaging portals reduce costs, improve outcomes, review of studies shows

No evidence that messaging portals reduce costs, improve outcomes, review of studies shows

Modern Healthcare Nov,22,2013 by:+Andis Robeznieks A key to the patient-centered medical home model is enhanced patient-physician communication-often through using a secure-messaging portal connected to an electronic health record. But according to a systematic review of 46 studies published over 22 years, there is insufficient evidence that portals improve outcomes or lower costs. 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: 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