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By Dan Munro for Forbes I’ve recounted the story behind this headline before (here) but there’s a longer, more detailed version – and lesson. I attended a healthcare event last year that needs to remain nameless. It wasn’t a big event.…
Julie Creswell, Barry Meier And Jo Craven Mcginty for The New York Times BAYONNE, N.J. — The most expensive hospital in America is not set amid the swaying palm trees of Beverly Hills or the luxury townhouses of New York’s…
By Bob Herman for Becker’s Hospital Review Although primary care physicians bring in more net revenue to the average hospital, their compensation still lags behind those in several medical and surgical specialties. Last week, physician consulting firm Merritt Hawkins released…
By Evan Steele, CEO SRSsoft on EMR Smart Talk A significant portion of the physician market has still not adopted an EHR, despite the lure of government incentives and the fear of the penalties looming on the horizon. The stock…
By Sandra G. Boodman for Kaiser Health News This story was produced in collaboration with The Washington Post At a critical point in a complex abdominal operation, a surgeon was handed a device that didn’t work because it had been…
Association cites negative impact EHRs have on docs By Tom Sullivan for HealthcareITNews As the healthcare industry moves to EHRs, the medical record has essentially been reduced to a tool for billing, compliance and litigation that also has a sustained…
By Jennifer Bresnick for EHR Intelligence As CEO of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), Lynne Thomas Gordon, MBA, RHIA, FACHE, has been charged with the task of overseeing the 70,000-strong organization during its efforts to help providers gear…
Article by Chris Dimick, Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of AHIMA. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on February 27, 2013 and is republished here with permission. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will…
By David Codrea for examiner.com An advance notice of proposed rulemaking by the Office for Civil Rights Department of the Department of Health and Human Services titled “HIPAA Privacy Rule and the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)” was…
From the personal blog of John D. Halamka, MD, MS, is Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center titled Life as a Healthcare CIO Now that schedules are returning to normal, it’s appropriate to review the events of…