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The Proposed Rule for Stage 2 Meaningful Use NPRM Now Available

by Fred Pennic 02/23/2012 Leave a Comment

The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for Stage 2 meaningful use was posted to the Office of the Federal Register today. The proposed rule outlines the next stage of meaningful use for the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs, which are administered by CMS. CMS has developed a fact sheet to give providers an overview of the rule and how Stage 2 expands upon Stage 1 of meaningful use. The fact sheet can be found on the EHR Incentive Programs website
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Infographic:Healthcare’s Data Conundrum

by Fred Pennic 02/21/2012 Leave a Comment

Healthcare's Data Conundrum Infographic

Infographic explores how healthcare's data conundrum can be used to make the capture, understanding, & utilization of data possible  to improve patient care With the electronic health record adoption rates rising and the push for a personalized and interactive approach to medicine becomes more prevalent, there is an opportunity for our healthcare system to transform from an inefficient machine into a well-oiled producer of actionable, meaningful information.  And this opportunity begins at
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CMS Announces Re-Examination of Timeline for ICD-10 – Is the Pressure Off?

by Fred Pennic 02/16/2012 Leave a Comment

The following is a guest post from Doug Hires, Partner, Consulting & Advisory Services at Santa Rosa Consulting, Inc. on the possible ICD-10 timeline delay. Many of you have likely read or heard this week that the acting CMS Administrator, Marilyn Tavenner, announced to the press following an AMA Advocacy Conference that CMS will "re-examine the timeframe" through a rulemaking process. She did not say when that rulemaking process will begin but said that CMS would send details about the
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Report:PPACA Would Reduce Number of Uninsured from 50 million to 26 million

by Fred Pennic 02/15/2012 Leave a Comment

In a recent report published last month by the Urban Institute and Robert Johnson Foundation states that if the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is enacted,  it would reduce the number of nonelderly uninsured Americans from 50 million to 26 million.  However, if the Individual Mandate clause of the PPACA is repealed, the number of uninsured Americans will rise between 40 and 42 million. The report also states that ACA would increase private insurance by 7 million people and if
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Video:Is Technology Changing the Doctor-Patient Relationship?

by Fred Pennic 02/10/2012 Leave a Comment

With preventable medical conditions such as obesity continuing to grow so does the need for patient involved healthcare. The doctor-patient relationship is critically important to bridging the gap between passive patients and informed medical consumers. Innovative technologies are the enabling factor for this, but are they succeeding — and how long will it be before we start seeing significant changes? The following video explores this question with moderator, Zachary Bujnoch, Senior Industry
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Race to the ICD-10 Finish Line Infographic

by Fred Pennic 02/08/2012 Leave a Comment

Infographic highlighting that ICD-10 is almost two Years Away and healthcare organizations must have a plan in order to race to the ICD-10 Finish Line  *Update: CMS has officially delayed ICD-10 to October 1, 2014 With the AMA writing yet another letter, this time to the HHS in hopes of stopping ICD-10. There are no current plans to stop ICD-10 implementation; therefore, with less than one year away, healthcare providers must race to meet the 10/1/13 compliance date. The following
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AMA Continues Onslaught of ICD-10

by Fred Pennic 01/31/2012 Leave a Comment

The AMA(American Medical Association) has upped the stakes in the fight against ICD-10 recently writing a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to stop HIPAA’s required implementation of ICD-10 and to call on stakeholders to assess an appropriate replacement for ICD-9.  AMA is stating that the implementation of ICD-10 will create no additional burdens on the practice of medicine and have no direct benefit to individual patient care, as physicians struggle with other costly transitions associating
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Video: AHA’s CEO Rich Umbdenstock Speaks on the Accountable Care Era

by Fred Pennic 01/24/2012 2 Comments

January 2012 marks the start of CMS's accountable care organization experiment, in addition to the many private partnerships hospitals are forging using the ACO model. AHA (American Hospital Association) President Rich Umbdenstock talks to Hospital & Health Networks senior online editor Haydn Bush about the challenges and opportunities hospitals face in the new era of accountability.
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Interview Podcast: ICD-10 Best Practices with Connie Tohara Vol. 2

by Fred Pennic 01/23/2012 1 Comment

October 1, 2013 is less than 2 years away leaving healthcare providers faced with the daunting task of making the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10. Many organizations have already started to prepare for the implementation while the majority have not begun any preparations until the deadlines looms closer.  HIT Consultant recently spoke with Connie Tohara, Director of Health Information at University of Utah Hospital and Karen Ferrell, Director, Computer-Assisted Physician Documentation (CAPD)
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How Hospital Billing Impacts Patient Experience [Infographic Wednesdays]

by Fred Pennic 01/18/2012 Leave a Comment

Infographic created by Connance  visually shows how hospital billing process is directly correlated to the patient experience. Patients who encounter problems with their physician's billing office are less likely to recommend that physician/clinician to others.
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