The U.S. population is aging, which means more physicians will be treating Medicare and Medicaid patients in the years to come. The Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services is mandating that physicians implement Electronic Medical Records to serve these patients more effectively and efficiently, and is offering reimbursements in the thousands for investment in technology. But the money is only available if doctors meet certain meaningful use requirements.
Intel Health recently spoke with Dr.
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Stage 2 of Meaningful Use Delayed to 2014
Today, the Department of Health and Human Services has moved the start date for Stage 2 of the electronic health records meaningful use program from 2013 to 2014. The department released the following statement regarding their decision:
"Input from the vendor community and the provider community makes clear that the current schedule for compliance with stage 2 meaningful use objectives in 2013 poses a nearly insurmountable timing challenge for those who attest to meaningful use in 2011. With
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Guest Post: 5010 Discretionary Period
This guest post was provided by Brien Keller, Senior Manager of Santa Rosa Consulting, Inc.:
The recently announced 90-Day Period of Enforcement Discretion for the HIPAA transaction standards (ASC X12 Version 5010, NCPDP Telecom D.0, and NCPDP Medicaid Subrogation 3.0) is precisely as it is described…a Period of Enforcement Discretion. It is not a delay in the compliance deadline, nor is it an extension on the continued use of today’s HIPAA transactions standards.
There are three key
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Xerox’s ACS Buys The Breakaway Group
ACS, a Xerox company has announced that it has acquired the software training company The Breakaway Group, adding a new cloud based service that will accelerate their adoption of Electronic Medical Records to help healthcare providers prepare for ICD-10 compliance and maximize their meaningful use funding.
Denver-based firm's technology, PromisePoint, allows caregivers to practice using an EMR just as they would in the hospital or doctor's office. By simulating their environment, they get
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Radiologists Feel Lack of Clarity in Meaningful Use Guidelines
KLAS and RNSA have partnered up to determine radiologists major concerns regarding MU (meaningful use) and what types of guidelines they felt would be beneficial to the practice of radiology. In the new survey of 216 radiologists, nearly 40 percent of participants expressed their concerns about the lack of clarity in MU (meaningful use) or decreased efficiency as a result of adopting current MU guidelines. The study entitled, "Radiologists' Take on Meaningful Use: a KLAS-RSNA Report"
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HIMSS Announces its Mobile Counterpart, mHIMSS
Last week, HIMSS announced it's mobile counterpart, mHIMSS a new platform dedicated to progress leadership on technology, security, and implementation surrounding mHealth.
The subgroup site, mHIMSS , www.mhimss.org is scheduled for launch the last week in November according to mHIMSS Senior Editor Edna Boone.
mHIMSS is an opportunity specificially for HIMSS members to access resources, tools, events, and engagements that embrace progress within the mobile and wireless technologies in
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Video: Evolving Imaging Practices: Image Sharing, Analytics and the Cloud
Learn how you can use imaging solutions to help accelerate the cycle of care, improve the patient experience and shave costs out of the system, in this discussion by a panel of renowned experts from the 2011 Microsoft Connected Health Conference in this hour long video.
Topics of discussion include EMRs integration, image sharing, analytics, and the cloud.
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Video: Why Everyone in Your Practice Needs Basic Medical Coding Training
In this new video podcast, Lyndsey Coats of Nuesoft speaks with Mary Pat Whaley, FACMPE, owner of Manage My Practice, LLC about the importance of education in medical coding and awareness for all members of the medical practice. Medical practices can be silos of duties and job descriptions, but to provide high-quality patient care those silos should be torn down (to a degree) so administrators, billers, nurses and doctors alike can come together and share knowledge. In this podcast we will
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Video: Mobile Point of Care: Choosing Devices for Collaborative Workflows
Mark Blatt, MD from Intel Health walks you through mobile point of care device selection and shares how to choose the right mobile device for collaborative workflow applications, like video conferencing. In a recent study, More than 50 percent of physicians use a smartphone for work purposes, according to a new study by IT industry association CompTIA. CompTIA’s “Third Annual Healthcare IT Insights and Opportunities” study consisted of online surveys of 350 doctors, dentists and other
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Thought Leadership: Mobile Applications In Healthcare
Mobile Applications in Healthcare: Reaching Out to Patients to Improve Care
by Colin Konschak, MBA, FHIMSS and Ram Davaloor, MS, MBA
One in five mobile phone owners today owns a smartphone, a trend that is on the rise as consumers increasingly use these devices as handheld computers. Not surprisingly the number of consumer smartphone applications (apps) that were downloaded went from 300 million in 2009 to five billion in 2010. With mobile devices outnumbering personal computers, we
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