Confused and frustrated trying to understand Meaningful Use Stage 2 updates? In light of the HHS’s proposed Stage 2 Meaningful Use criteria, CareCloud has provided an easy comprehensive look at what you really need to know about Meaningful Use Stage 2 criteria.
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Behind the Curtains: What and why you need to know about meaningful use stage 2
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How Will The New NHS Reform Affect You?
It was earlier this year we saw the outcry by doctors and staff when the new NHS reform was released. An £80 billion budget was awarded to patient care with general practitioners while 20,000 staff members are expected to lose their jobs and 151 primary care trusts are abolished. For doctors around the country this is an unwelcome reform, one that will see them competing on price for NHS resources where before the tariffs were set in stone. This reform has been designed to encourage general
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How to Leverage BYOD to Support Meaningful Use w/ Tom Murphy
How to effectively leverage BYOD to support Meaningful Use and SSO interview/podcast with Tom Murphy, Chief Marketing Officer at Bradford Networks
In part 2, Tom discusses the following:
Steps for healthcare organizations to make BYOD a priority
How to leverage BYOD to support Meaningful Use
Single Sign On Technology in BYOD
Future of BYOD
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HIT Consultant: Now with healthcare organizations facing competing priorities of Meaningful Use and
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HIT Employment Models: 1099, W2 Hourly or Salaried, Which Is Right For You?
by Cherie Lester, Senior Healthcare IT Recruiter at Holland Square Group
An important question during most interviews in the HCIT Consultant industry is: Do you prefer W2 Hourly, 1099 or Salaried employment? Normally the candidate will understand the distinction between Salaried employment and W2 hourly or 1099 (Contract), but many questions arise during this part of the interview as the candidate tries to determine which scenario is best for them, particularly if it is someone that is new
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Interview: Understanding Clinical Language Understanding with Carina Edwards, VP Solutions Marketing at Nuance Healthcare
There is a growing demand to extract structured, "actionable" information from unstructured (dictated) medical documents. Clinical Language Understanding (CLU) technology allows a computer to read and understand electronic free text and extract data for use in countless applications across the healthcare spectrum. To understand and learn more about CLU technology, HIT Consultant spoke with Carina Edwards, VP, Solutions Marketing at Nuance Healthcare for a deep dive into:
CLU
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Report: Business Models in Digital Health: B2B & B2C
Besides clearly defining your problem and solution for your digital health startup, entrepreneurs must be able to clearly define and articulate how they are going to make money. Rock Health, digital health accelerator for startups recently released their Rock Report, Business Models in Digital Health that sources data from entrepreneurs and investors working in the space, as well as relevant industry research. The report showcases the distinct trade offs and opportunities for
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3 Implications of 3M’s Open Source Health Data Dictionary
Last month, 3M Health Information Systems released their Health Data Dictionary as open source software making it free and available worldwide. The open source contract is part of an agreement with U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary will provide the core technology to enable semantic interoperability for the joint DoD/VA integrated Electronic Health Record (iEHR), making it possible to share medical knowledge and secure patient
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Video: How to Fill Coding Documentation Gaps When Converting to ICD-10
Here is a recent ICD-10 Summit Wrap up video interview with Mary Stanfill, MBI, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, FAHIMA, vice president of HIM consulting services at UASI talks about coding documentation gaps and the best ways to fill them in converting to ICD-10. Stanfill provides the following tips on addressing coding documentation gaps:
Identifying high risk areas suchas surgical procedures for amputations must be coded as mid, high, or low in order code the case
Improve physician/clinician
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Report: How Can We Be Sure That mHealth Isn’t Just Technology-Driven Hype?
This global report from PwC assesses the market opportunities and challenges for mobile health (mHealth) from the perspective of health care providers, patients and payers. The report finds a growing pervasiveness of technology enabling the emergence of a new, more patient-centric health care value chain that can leverage mHealth. The distinction between traditional health care and mHealth is dissolving as consumers demand a seamless health care experience that can be provided via mobile
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Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) and MAC: Failure and Success in 2012
By Lori Brocato, Audit Product Manager, HealthPort Lori Brocato, Audit Product Manager, HealthPort writes about the failures and successes of Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) and Medicare Administrative Contractors (MAC)
The latest CMS figures report nearly $600 million was recouped from healthcare providers in the first quarter of 2012 alone. Added to earlier overpayments, providers have “given back” over $1B since the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program began.
The success
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