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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Breaking News: CMS Delays 5010 to March 31, 2012
CMS has just announced that it would not initiate enforcement action until March 31, 2012 in regards to any HIPAA covered entity that is not in compliance with the ASC X12 Version 5010 (Version 5010), NCPDP Telecom D.0 (NCPDP D.0) and NCPDP Medicaid Subrogation 3.0 (NCPDP 3.0) standards. Notwithstanding OESS’ discretionary application of its enforcement authority, the compliance date for use of these new standards remains January 1, 2012 (small health plans have until January 1, 2013 to comply
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Catholic Healthcare West inks $4.3M deal with AirStrip
Catholic West, the fifth largest heath system in the US announced today that they have inked a $4.3 million 3 year deal with AirStrip Technologies to use their AirstripOB applications at 32 of it's hospital systems that have birthing facilities. Currently, AirStrip has piloted Airstrip at two of it's California hospitals, Mercy Medical Center and Sequoia Hospital.
AirStrip OB Overview
The AirStrip OB app gives physicians mobile access to vital patient data in waveform
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NCQA Accountable Care Organization Accreditation Overview
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is launching a new accreditation program for Accountable Care Organizations on November 21st. ACO accreditation is an independent evaluation of healthcare delivery organizations' ability to coordinate the high quality, efficient, patient centered care expected of ACOs. I decided to write a brief comprehensive overview based on the presentation and white paper provided by NCQA.
Why ACO Accreditation Matters:
Variation in capabilities
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AMA Votes to “Vigorously” Stop ICD-10
Yesterday, the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association voted "to work vigorously to stop implementation of ICD-10," according to the news release on AMA's website. AMA's presdient, Peter W. Camel, MD stated, "The implementation of ICD-10 will create significant burdens on the practice of medicine with no direct benefit to individual patients' care. At a time when we are working to get the best value possible for our health care dollar, this massive and expensive undertaking will
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