eHealth

workers' comp / freedigitalphotos.net

ICD-9 coding to ICD-10 as mandated by the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA). Workers’ compensation commercial insurers are non-covered entities under HIPPA and therefore exempt from the mandate to convert their billing practices to ICD-10.[read more]

Patient leads (Photo: Alan Cleaver)

People are increasingly relying on the Internet to find the answers they need when it comes to services, especially with healthcare and medical services. This is why it is so important for medical offices to have a strong process set up that gets people landing on their website.[read more]

Medicare's blue button

Medicare's Blue Button provides you an easy way to download your personal health information to a file. You can download the file of your personal data and save the file on your own personal computer. The Blue Button is safe, secure, reliable, and easy to use.[read more]

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How to find the fitness app that best suits your needs? We compared features, user ratings, and affordability to bring you the top five iPhone apps for tracking your health—because we think seeing your progress makes it easier to stick to your goals.[read more]

ICD-10 is coming / freedigitalphotos.net

The US Dept. of Health and Human Services has directed the supplanting of the ICD-9-CM code sets, those currently utilized by physicians, medical billers and coders to report healthcare procedures and diagnoses, with ICD-10 codes. Implementation is to be effected on October 1, 2014.[read more]

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On May 8th, @Bonnycastle took the reins and moderated the hcsmca chat. Together we discussed the relationship between physicians and patients support groups. As an introduction, she wrote the blog post "Should medical doctors advocate for patient support groups?"[read more]

Health IT

AsseSSOnce provides users with one clinical desktop solution that layers over all existing applications. It is capable of working across desktop, laptop and tablet devices and creates a virtual desktop that allows session persistence from the office, to the patients’ bedsides, to the outpatients’ clinic.[read more]

PAO performed at Spire Bushey

Very recently in the UK, Spire Bushey Hospital in Watford used Twitter and Vine to tweet and video live surgery in the OR for educational purposes. Mr Aresh Hashemi-Nejad, an orthopaedic surgeon at Spire Bushey, performed a Periacetabular Osteotomy (PAO), a complex hip operation.[read more]

doctor-patient relationship / shutterstock

Pathcare is a powerful, personal and private social network for a physician and her patients that provides three things to reduce stress and improve the patient-doctor relationship: private messaging, personalized updates, and physician branding.[read more]

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Last month I spoke at the first CIS Qatar International Conference in Doha Qatar; the program was focused on implementation issues and what it takes to realize the benefits of EMR adoption. My topic was the Importance of Enterprise Wide Medical Device Integration in CIS workflow.[read more]

patient-centered web site / shutterstock

The FDA launched an impressive patient network website this month, after nearly four years of research, focus groups, usability testing and more. The twin goals for this website are promoting the educational mission of the FDA, and promoting opportunities for patient advocacy within the FDA.[read more]

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The intersection of social media and patient interaction can be busy and confusing. “Online technologies present both opportunities and challenges to professionalism,” the American College of Physicians (ACP) observes. A new position paper offers these primary points for physician guidance.[read more]