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Time Ticks Down on ICD-10, but Survey Finds a Lack of Progress

By Joseph Goedert for HealthData Management A new survey from the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange on ICD-10 preparations-the seventh survey since late 2009-finds a disturbing lack of industry progress during the past year. WEDI in February 2013 surveyed 974 industry participants, comprising 87 vendors, 109 health plans and 778 providers, and compared results with…

Posted on:Jun 6, 2013
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Hospital Calculates the ROI of an iPad at 9 Days

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. In fact, it was very focused and relatively small. That’s about as much as we need to…

Posted on:Jun 6, 2013
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New Jersey Hospital Has Highest Billing Rates in the Nation

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 Upper East Side. It is in a faded blue-collar town 11 miles from Midtown Manhattan.…

Posted on:May 23, 2013
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51 Statistics on Physician Salaries vs. Hospital Revenue Generated

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 its “2013 Physician Inpatient/Outpatient Revenue Survey.” Merritt Hawkins received responses from 102 hospital and health…

Posted on:May 23, 2013
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Physicians Spooked by Failure Stories—EHR Adoption Suffers

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 prices of most publicly traded ambulatory EHR companies are down sharply, as sales are lower…

Posted on:May 23, 2013
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Hospitals Crack Down On Tirades By Angry Doctors

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 loaded incorrectly by a surgical technician. Furious that she couldn’t use it, the surgeon slammed…

Posted on:May 9, 2013
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AMA: EHRs create ‘appalling Catch-22’

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 negative impact on doctors’ productivity, according to Steven J. Stack, MD, chair of the American…

Posted on:May 9, 2013
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Q&A: AHIMA CEO says checkpoints, teamwork key to ICD-10 success

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 up for ICD-10 implementation. Thomas Gordon sat down with EHRintelligence to talk about some of…

Posted on:May 9, 2013
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CMS: No Further Delays in ICD-10-CM/PCS Implementation

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 maintain their commitment to the current ICD-10-CM/PCS compliance date of October 1, 2014, according to…

Posted on:Apr 26, 2013
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Proposed HIPAA privacy rule on gun background checks open for comments

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 published yesterday in the Federal Register. Drafted following Executive Actions signed by President Barack Obama…

Posted on:Apr 25, 2013
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