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May 2010
18 posts
Blumenthal: NHIN, NHIN Direct Offer Paths to...
Last week, National Coordinator for Health IT David Blumenthal published an open letter touting the Nationwide Health Information Network as a model to help health care providers meet the “meaningful use” requirements of the 2009 federal economic stimulus package, Modern Healthcare reports.
Under the stimulus package, health care providers who demonstrate meaningful use of electronic health...
Medical Mutual will offer incentives for...
One of Ohio’s biggest health insurance companies is trying to convince doctors to forego their old-fashioned prescription pads more often.
Cleveland-based Medical Mutual of Ohio is teaming up with its pharmacy benefits manager, Medco Health Solutions, for a pilot program that gives select doctors financial incentives to prescribe medications electronically.
Medical Mutual is signing up 250 of...
Bar-code technology cuts medication errors: study
Using bar-code verification technology for medication administration can significantly reduce error rates and decrease the likelihood of adverse events, according to a newly published study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
In the study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, examined data from several units in the...
Outsource Your Medical Billing with Care
Whenever a health care provider or a hospital plans to have a full fledged medical billing department with billing clerks, it is very essential to think twice and make sure to choose well experienced billing staff. Today fortunately, outsourcing the entire medical billing process is a cheaper option that is available.
Quite often there have been instances when the in-house billing staff does not...
HHS to study patient perceptions of EHRs
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is seeking patient perceptions of the delivery of healthcare through the use of an EHR.
“Health IT experts agree that HITECH stimulus funds are likely to improve how physicians practice medicine for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries and, ultimately, for advancing patient-centered medical care...
Study Shows E-Prescribing Significantly Reduces...
In a recent news that our Baltimore, Maryland Attorneys have been following, doctors are reportedly increasingly leaving behind paper when prescribing medications, and depending more and more on electronic prescriptions, or “e-prescriptions”—in an effort to avoid pharmacy misfills and medication errors, along with hard-to-read doctor handwriting, or even prescription fraud, as our attorneys...
EMRs Top Priority For 58% Of Hospital CIOs
CIOs rank electronic medical records projects higher than IT managers and directors, who are focused on PC refreshes.
With $20 billion-plus worth of meaningful use bonuses from the government at stake for their organizations, E-medical records and electronic ordering systems are the top IT priorities for hospital CIOs over the next two years, according to a survey.
However, among hospital IT...
HHS awards $220M to 15 EHR ‘beacon communities’
Vice President Joe Biden joined with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Tuesday to announce the 15 “beacon communities” that will receive a total of $220 million in federal funding to serve as national models for adoption of EHRs and other health IT.
“These pioneering communities are going to lead the way in bringing smarter, lower-cost healthcare to all Americans through use of electronic health...
Wisconsin Passes Law To Establish Statewide EHR...
On Tuesday, Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle (D) signed into law the WIRED for Health Act (AB 779), which will create an entity to oversee the establishment of a statewide electronic health record system, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports (Boulton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5/11).
Wisconsin is receiving $9.4 million through the 2009 federal economic stimulus package to plan and develop the...
CMS announces $9 million in funding for Medicaid...
The CMS has announced the awarding of a total of just over $9 million in matching funds to be used by four states to plan for their Medicaid programs to subsidize provider purchases and the use of electronic health-record systems under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the stimulus law.
The states and their grant amounts are: New Jersey, $4.93 million; Louisiana,...
Obama launches national campaign to sell health...
WASHINGTON – After signing the healthcare reform bill into law on March 23, President Barack Obama traveled to Iowa and Maine to promote his vision, which includes the role of healthcare IT in saving lives and cutting cost.
Obama visited Iowa City, Iowa on March 25 and Portland, Maine on April 1.
At the Maine rally, Obama said passage of the healthcare reform law is a reminder that the country...
Medical Transcription Service – Digital Records in...
The hospitals, clinics, health care centers and physicians, and all the other medical service providers look for the best medical transcription service. There are many companies which provide these services in conformity with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. These services are very cost effective and have helped in the efficient record maintenance of the patient’s medical...
Physician Billing Companies — the Best Option for...
Deciding to incorporate medical financial services into your health practice’s workings isn’t a small action to take. It is a significant subject, considering that it comprises an extensive list of benefits, many of which will help your business to run better and increase your profit margin. Cut down on those worries and pressures and automatically ensure that your physician practice is meeting...
Online Patient Portal – Another Innovation of...
Latest technology has simplified our lives to a great extent. Internet is helping to simplify many complicated procedures and few examples of the same are exchanging messages, contacting people in distant places using chat and emails, online shopping, reading information of latest events and happenings across the world and collecting information required related to any topic.
One of the most...
How To Evaluate Medical Billing Services
We recently penned a post, “Should You Outsource Your Medical Billing,” which compared outsourcing the revenue cycle management process to managing that function in-house with medical billing systems. Assuming you go for the former option – outsourcing – this post will help you make the right choice of medical billing service companies.
How can a provider tell the difference between a...
E-prescribing growing, but most practices still...
A new report finds a significant uptick in the number of physicians who prescribe electronically. But the e-prescribers still only account for about one in four physicians, or 26% of office-based doctors.
The numbers come from Surescripts, which operates the nation’s largest e-prescribing network. It released its annual e-prescribing progress report on March 2. The report found that although...
EMR Implementation in Small and Large Clinics
I always love to hear clinics talk about the challenges they face in implementing an EMR. For the most part, they are completely predictable. Especially when it comes to the small versus large clinic challenges.
For example, small clinics will complain that they don’t have the resources that large clinics have to implement an EMR. Large clinics will complain that they have too much bureaucracy,...
Covering Electronic Health Records
Electronic health records (EHRs) have been around in one form or another since the 1960s, but the notion of patient records being stored on computers is only beginning to seep into the public’s consciousness. While pretty much every other industry computerized years ago, the vast majority of Americans’ medical records remain on paper.
The goal of electronic health records (and health information...
March 2010
11 posts
The Much Anticipated Proposal For Certification or...
While many are still talking to the EHR vendors at the exhibit halls at the HIMSS 2010, The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) released yesterday the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for the two certification programs. This proposed program has two proposals in it. One that will be temporary and the other would be permanent.The proposed program outlines the following:
The...
Surescripts: E-prescription use rises 181% in 2009
E-prescribing in the U.S. witnessed an 181 percent increase as 190 milion prescriptions were routed electronically in 2009 versus 68 million in 2008, according to a report from e-prescription network Surescripts, in its 2009 progess report on e-prescribing. Of the 190 million, more than four million e-prescriptions were routed to mail order pharmacies.
Eighteen percent of prescriptions are not...
Survey: Many Non-EHR Users Plan To Purchase...
Fifty-eight percent of physicians who currently do not use electronic health records say they plan to introduce new systems in the next two years, according to a survey released Tuesday at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s 2010 conference, HealthLeaders Media reports.
For the study, Accenture’s Innovation Center for Health and Institute for Health & Public Service...
HHS Extends HITSP Contract, Pushes Ahead With EHR...
The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel has extended its contract with HHS through April 30, 2010, the panel announced Tuesday, Healthcare IT News reports.
The panel and HHS have collaborated to expand the adoption and interoperability of electronic health records since HITSP’s creation in 2005, according to Fran Schrotter, HITSP’s project director and senior vice president and...
Electronic Prescriptions Reduce Errors by...
Weill Cornell Medical College-Led Study Is One of the First to Compare E-Prescriptions to Handwritten Prescriptions in Community-Based Practices
Should doctors around the country use e-prescribing to decrease prescription errors? A study led by physician-scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College found that health care providers using an electronic system to write prescriptions were seven...
Medical Billing Service for Focused Medical Care
There are various supportive tasks in medical industry. All help doctors to strengthen there position in this industry. Medical billing is one of the important tasks in medical care. Without medical billing, doctors can not submit insurance claims to insurance company. Here are the three ways to do billing task internally:
1. To do the billing task at your own, it is waste of time.
2....
CCHIT To Certify EHR Systems for Women’s Health,...
The Certification Commission for Healthcare IT has announced plans to offer certification programs for electronic health record systems targeting women’s health and cancer specialists, InformationWeek reports.
CCHIT made its announcement during the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s 2010 conference in Atlanta (Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek, 3/2).
The American Society of...
Cardiologists Guide To Electronic Medical Records...
Today’s cardiologists rely heavily on electronic data. From echocardiogram and stress test machines to catheterization suites, the accuracy and reliability of these data systems are paramount for delivering high quality cardiology care. The sophisticated technology is undermined, however, if each piece of the cardiologist’s arsenal isn’t integrated into a comprehensive Electronic Medical Records...
EHR market forecast at $5.4B by 2015
SAN JOSE, CA – The market for electronic medical record systems in North America will exceed $5.4 billion by 2015, according to a new report from Global Industry Analysts.
The same report, “Electronic Medical Record Systems: A North American and European Market Report,” pegs the European market at $1.4 billion by 2015.
Global Industry Analysts, Inc., (GIA) is a publisher of off-the-shelf...
Global Market for MT Services Set to Skyrocket
The global market for medical transcription services is expected to approach $49 billion worldwide by the year 2015, according to a recent report from Global Industry Analysts, Inc.
Growth in the industry is primarily triggered by efforts to prune down healthcare costs. Health maintenance organizations, healthcare providers, and hospitals, primarily in developed countries, are increasingly...
The Family Physician’s Guide To Electronic...
The new requirement for all physicians to use electronic medical records has challenged today’s Family Physicians, who already rely heavily on electronic data. This guide is intended to help you navigate this increasing complex area without losing site of your priority – patient care. From patient monitors and new patient surveys of medical history, to the sophisticated imaging and records systems...
February 2010
23 posts
Medical Transcription System: Offering a Helping...
Medical transcription system has become an indispensable part of the medical industry. The user friendly mode and the features of the transcription system have made it highly preferred by healthcare centers and physicians.
The prime role of a medical transcription system is to convert a voice recording into a text format which can later be stored and retrieved whenever necessary as per...
Certified Medical Software – Why does it matter? ...
Certified medical software can help doctors increase profit and improve patient care. But how do you know if software is “certified”, and why does it matter?? For one thing, if medical records are going to go digital, it’s essential for state and federal governments to develop sensible, well-defined regulations.
The idea is ostensibly to encourage the adoption of electronic medical record (EMR)...
Obama administration awarding $975 million to...
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration announced $975 million in grants to help states, doctors and hospitals move from paper to computerized record-keeping.
Studies show electronic medical records help reduce medical errors and improve the quality of patient care. The grant money comes from the economic stimulus passed by Congress last year and is part of a push to get health care providers to...
36.1 Percent EHR Adoption Rate in Physician...
Here’s some interesting data from a market research report generated by SK&A: “36.1 Percent EHR Adoption Rate in Physician Offices”
I’m sure this number will dramatically change over the next few years. According to SK&A, the adoption rate is much higher (over 70%) in physician groups that have 26 or more physicians. What’s somewhat surprising is that over 28% of solo physicians are...
Eligible Provider "Meaningful Use" Criteria
Healthcare IT News in this article published the list of 25 meaningful use objectives that professionals and hospitals must meet in order to receive stimulus funds from the government provided through Recovery Act. This list was taken from the proposed rule: “Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Electronic Health Record Incentive Program.
[1] Objective: Use CPOE
Measure: CPOE is used for at...
Ambulatory survey shows slight uptick in EHR use
A government survey indicates there was an 18.7% increase in the use of electronic health-record systems in physician offices to 41.5% in 2008 from 34% in 2007, but preliminary results for 2009 show only a slight increase up to 43.9%.
Doctors were asked, “Does this practice use electronic medical records or electronic health records (not including billing records)?” with options for answering...
Incentive Payments for E-prescribing
In its attempts to widely disperse and advocate the use of electronic prescribing (or more popularly known as e-prescribing), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has begun providing incentive payments of up to 2 percent to eligible physicians and other health care providers using this technology for the year 2009.
According to the Medicare E-prescribing Incentive Program,...
The Benefits of Outsourced Billing: An...
Similar to trends experienced by most economies, the healthcare industry has become highly competitive and ultra fast-paced. Those who don’t keep up will definitely be left behind. With international players in the Medical Tourism industry offering extremely low prices using internationally competitive quality standards, local health professionals and providers have no option but to bring their...
The Allergy Specialist’s Guide To Electronic...
Today’s allergy specialists have relied heavily on electronic records for quite some time. From complete sets of medical records to advanced spirometry machines, the accuracy and reliability of these data systems are paramount for delivering high quality patient care. The sophisticated technology is undermined, however, if some pieces of the allergist’s arsenal aren’t integrated into a...
KY to Receive Federal Funds for EHR
The state of Kentucky will receive a $2.6 million in federal matching funds from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to help fund the development of the state’s electronic health records incentive program.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 provided a 90 percent federal match for state planning activities related to the creation of an incentive program that...
A Title Change for MTs: What’s Your Opinion?
As some of you may know, per the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI), the Department of Labor has suggested that our job title be changed from medical transcriptionist to some other moniker. I have heard some odd titles being bandied about such as “health care document analyst” or “medical document analyst,” which some feel better reflect what we do. I feel that either of the...
Medical Transcription Services for Family...
Medical transcription services offer enhanced file management capability for family practices.
Medical transcription services for family practices are allied health services undertaken by outsourcing companies. The service is gaining fast popularity among doctors, physicians and surgeons who want to lessen their administrative burden.
A large number of patients depend upon family practice...
The Guide to Choosing the Right EHR
With nearly $19 billion of incentives for medical practices to convert to electronic records included in President Obama’s economic stimulus plan, it might be the right time to select an Electronic Health Record system EHR software solution, also called and EMR, for your medical practice. A quick look at hundreds of different EHR vendors on the market can easily overload your search.
Most...
Electronic Medical Records More Prevalent Now
The medical industry has changed significantly over the past decade. One of the major changes is that many medical offices are moving from paper to electronic medical records. There are also a number of practice management software packages available to medical practitioners. This makes their lives easier, but what does it mean for patients? To understand the answer to that question, it is first...
Electronic Medical Billing Software
Electronic medical billing software is now commonly used in the specialist field of medical billing. There are today a variety of custom-made software packages which provide this important function.
Use of specifically designed medical billing software has numerous advantages over using general purpose software for this function as the software is specifically created for the detailed and...
Incentive Payments for Meaningful Use of EHR...
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act establishes an incentive program that provides incentive payments to eligible physicians (EP) and eligible hospitals for meaningfully using electronic health records (EHR). While many specialists are learning the conditions under which they can capitalize on these incentive payments, anesthesiologists will learn that they do not qualify as EPs, thus not...
The E-prescribing Boom
E-prescribing is one important component of EHRs. Retail pharmacies are realizing the potential for e-prescribing to increase their safety and productivity, such as Walgreens. The national pharmacy chain’s electronic prescriptions recently reached 4 million in October 2009, a 185-percent increase from the year prior.
It is projected that Walgreens will fill more than 45 million electronic...
Stimulus could boost technology, care at safety...
BETHESDA, MD – Investments in community health centers that provide care for about 15 million people who are poor, underserved and uninsured have helped expand the services, according to new research. The funds sometimes also give technology a boost.
The authors of the new study, published in the February 2010 edition of the journal Health Affairs estimate that a $500,000 increase in grant...
OmniMD Introduces Elite Referral Partner (ERP)...
Tarrytown, NY—OmniMD, one of the leading healthcare information technology companies, which provides Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Practice Management (PMS) and other Healthcare IT products and services to their providers and clinics across the nation and is CCHIT Certified 2006 Ambulatory EHR, has announced its Elite Referral Partner (ERP) Program. The program facilitates their partner...
Final definition of “meaningful use”?
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) at the Department of Health and Human Services issued proposed regulations on the definition of “meaningful use” and the initial set of standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria for EHR technology.
This announcement was made in...