Medical Records

medical devices

The medical device market is a fast-developing sector in the U.S. healthcare industry, and mobile health solutions have been a subject of serious discussions among technology experts for quite some time. The fact that mobile devices have great potential to improve care quality is now accepted worldwide.[read more]

EHR adoption: slow down!

More than 150,000 physicians will need to start participating in Stage 2 starting in 2014. According to the American Medical Association (AMA), achieving some of the high reporting thresholds and meeting measures for interoperability will prove challenging for many physicians.[read more]

claim denials

Health insurance claim denials are one of the largest areas of lost revenue for health care organizations. Reducing denials is a valuable way to increase profitability amidst the difficult financial situation organizations face due to things like Medicare cutbacks and lower reimbursement rates.[read more]

medical billing problems

Everything we read suggests the day is nearing when all hospitals and doctors will use computers instead of paper. But despite the progress being made to eliminate it in hospitals and clinics, there remains an insidious blizzard of paper in the health industry that seems to be only getting worse--medical billing.[read more]

EHR implementation race

According to a recent study by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, only 31 percent of solo practitioners have an EHR system that meets the requirements for Meaningful Use Stage 1, compared to 62 percent of mid-sized practices and 82 percent of larger healthcare facilities.[read more]

healthcare costs

Under today’s reimbursement system, better care doesn’t always yield better business results. That’s because healthcare organizations aren’t incentivized to eliminate profitable procedures that may not benefit patients. The way most hospitals and clinicians are paid today, why would we expect otherwise?[read more]

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]

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]

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]

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]

electronic medical record / shutterstock

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]

EHR

I think recent innovations in tech have created new opportunities to re-imagine electronic health record solutions. Past generations of EHR/EMR solutions, often designed by engineers rather than clinicians, have relied too much on copying paper-based workflow.[read more]