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Which Non-Profit Hospital Execs Earn Million Dollar Paychecks?

Written for FierceHealthFinance Are nonprofit hospital execs paid too much? Seven 7-figure paychecks Nonprofit hospitals are usually bulwarks of the community in terms of the services and jobs they provide. Many provide millions of dollars in charity patient care. Some create innovative programs that vastly improve the care infrastructure. Click here to read the entire…

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Scared of ICD-10? ICD-11 is in the wings

By Bernie Monegain, Editor, Healthcare IT News SALT LAKE CITY – If the health information managers in the audience at the annual AHIMA Convention in Salt Lake City on Tuesday morning were not already overwhelmed by ICD-10, once T.B Ustun, MD, hit the stage, they would be. It was just a few minutes into his…

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Military Health Plan Data Breach Threatens 4.9 Million

TRICARE says lost backup tapes fall under FTC jurisdiction, not HIPAA, so only offers 90 days of fraud protection. By Neil Versel for InformationWeek A data breach involving nearly 5 million people treated at military healthcare facilities over a 19-year period is raising questions about whether U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rules supersede Health Insurance…

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ICD-10, Meaningful Use and AHIMA How do they all fit together?

By Joe Bormel, M.D., MPH, for Healthcare Informatics The 83rd annual convention of AHIMA is getting underway as I write this, and with it HIM is at the center of the biggest regulatory reforms in most of our careers, ARRA/MU and ICD-10. At this event, new and evolving approaches to coder’s workflow in the MU…

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10 Proven Ways to Reduce Hospital Readmissions

By Jaimie Oh for Becker’s Hospital Review The reasons hospital and health system leaders should be concerned with driving down preventable readmissions are clear. Under healthcare reform, healthcare providers with high levels of preventable readmissions face the potential of losing a portion of their federal payments. The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, which is part of…

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Joint Commission Names Top Performing Hospitals

Written by Rene Letourneau for Healthcare Finance News In its 2011 annual report on quality and safety released Wednesday, The Joint Commission named the 405 best performing hospitals in the United States. For the first time, the report “Improving America’s Hospitals” lists hospitals and critical access hospitals that are top performers in using evidence-based care…

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Physicians Voice Enthusiasm About Digital Dictation

By Florian Schwiecker for HIT Exchange There’s broad consensus today that automating clinical workflow can help improve patient care and save money. But while many practices are implementing sophisticated EHR systems, their dictation methods haven’t changed much since the 1960s. Many doctors still dictate into analog recorders that have been around since The Beatles’ heyday.…

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Talk vs. Type: Taking Another Look at Voice Recognition

By Marisa Torrieri for Diagnostic Imaging Even if you previously passed on using voice recognition technology, with EHRs and the movement toward integrated healthcare, it might deserve a second look. Like many of his peers who have also practiced medicine for 25 years, family physician Fred Jorgensen doesn’t type as quickly as he can write…

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CIOs Report on One of Their Busiest Years

By Michael E Hilts for Health Management Technology Healthcare CIOs have their hands full with meaningful-use missions and other priorities. But their pockets are fuller, too, with a growing compensation and healthy bonuses. One could say that healthcare chief information officers are in their heyday. In fact, times might not get much better, or busier,…

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