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By Tim Evans for INDYSTAR The Indiana Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a $1.4 million verdict against Walgreen Co. and one of its pharmacists who shared confidential medical information about a client that had once dated her husband. The order is the first published appellate court decision in the nation in which a health-care…
By Jennifer Bresnick for HealthIT Analytics A drastic reduction in patient safety errors can be attributed to the use of advanced EHR systems, a Pennsylvania study finds. The implementation and use of advanced EHR systems in Pennsylvania hospitals has produced a 27% decline in negative patient safety events, states an October study by researchers from…
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By Rajiv Leventhal for Healthcare Informatics Despite significant progress in electronic health record (EHR) adoption, the road is still paved with pitfalls for many providers, according to new analysis from research firm Frost & Sullivan.The survey was in conjunction with the College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME), and primarily targeted CIOs working in mid-to-large…
By Brad Wieners for Bloomberg Businessweek Yesterday, Dr. Darin Portnoy, a family physician from the Bronx, completed his first rounds—60 patients, five of them children—in an Ebola ward of a treatment center in Paynesville, about 250 miles southeast of Monrovia, Liberia. He’s been impressed from the start by the efficiency of the clinic, but what…
By Marty Fattig for Hospital & Health Networks The transition to ICD-10 may have been delayed a year, but that doesn’t mean hospital executives can tune out what’s happening in their organizations. It is up to the CEOs to make sure that their organizations have smooth transitions. Well, they put off ICD-10 implementation once again…
By Ayla Ellison for Becker’s Hospital CFO CMS has released the final rules regarding Medicare payments to physicians, non-physician practitioners, hospital outpatient departments, ambulatory surgery centers and dialysis facilities that treat patients with end-stage renal disease. Here are 10 things to know about the final 2015 payment rules. CMS released policy and payment changes to…
By Shannon Barnet for Becker’s Hospital Review The term “healthcare” encompasses a wide variety of issues ranging from insurance coverage controversies and workforce compensation trends to prescription drug administration and health information technology. Being able to master all matters of healthcare would likely take an inordinate amount of time, which is why Becker’s Hospital Review…
By Jen Bresnick for RevCycle Intelligence October 1, 2014 was supposed to be the beginning of the ICD-10 era in the United States, but once again the industry is facing a new implementation date after Congressional action in April. While the one-year delay does give some organizations a much-needed breathing space to ramp up testing,…
By Al Tompkins for Poynter. Journalists covering the Ebola story are struggling to find a balance between patients’ rights, the public’s need to know what is going on and the uncomfortable feeling that innocent people caught up in this story will be “marked” for life. A little more than a week ago, Nina Pham was…