Hospital Administration

With 130 million visits, 28% of all acute-care visits, and accounting for nearly half of all admissions, emergency medicine should be expected to represent a large share of health care spending….More attention should be devoted to quantifying the value of specific aspects of emergency care.[read more]

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Mid-sized, low wage companies will feel the effect of Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation. Opponents of the law have been making a big deal out of how it will harm businesses and stop their growth plans. But if you learn more, you’ll see there’s little to fear.[read more]

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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]

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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 an ordinary day many small- to mid-size community hospitals struggle to compete, remain independent…or even keep their doors open at all. But as provisions and affects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) continue to rollout, the challenges are increasingly severe.[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]

TED talk

The challenge with ACA is to make it a financially sustainable business model. The same applies to Integrated Health Systems. The further growth of HIS will be at the expense of the present individual, and small medical groups. Eventually, the IHS will provide the most efficient administrative and clinical organization.[read more]

batch process to get home on time

Do you notice that for every 15 minutes you spend with a patient, you spend WAY more than that messing around in the EMR and being distracted by things like prescription refills, test results and a hundred other forms of two bit clerical work in your day? Here's a solution: batch processing.[read more]

Health IT

As a 20-year practicing physician and a former hospital CIO/CMIO, I am well aware that healthcare is an extremely complex, highly regulated industry. Nonetheless, I am dismayed by how much money gets wasted in healthcare due to inefficient processes and antiquated technologies.[read more]

BI & analytics (freedigitalphotos.net)

Experts espouse the use of business intelligence and big data in manufacturing, health care, financial management, and other niches. What does this new reliance on data have to do with radiology billing? If you want to develop a profitable claims process, it turns out data plays a huge role.[read more]

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Once again, alarm hazards tops the ECRI Institute’s 2013 Top 10 Health Technology Hazards. Alarm fatigue has plagued hospitals for many years and shows little sign of abating. Effectively managing it requires hospitals to do a number of somewhat complicated of things well.[read more]

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Although there have been many doctor advocates for social media, there are still limited social media training resources for doctors, especially for young doctors. Should doctors undergo a formal social media training program? The answer from Mayo Clinic is “yes.”[read more]