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Why Electronic Medical Records Are Not Patient-Centric

By Laurence Chu, MD, FACS for Forbes Current information technology is lacking an efficient and comprehensive solution to everyday care for the healthcare provider and patient. For many physicians, there is a forced acceptance of the electronic medical record (EMR). Providers have choices from EMR vendors like athenahealth, Cerner CERN, eClinicalWorks, Epic , General Electric’s…

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Unfinished Business

By Susan Chapman for For The Record Findings from The Joint Commission show many surveyed hospitals house incomplete medical records. When so many aspects of health care revolve around quality documentation, it would be good to know that providers are accomplished medical record custodians. Depending on your perspective, the news on that front isn’t half…

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Respiratory Therapist Convicted in HIPAA Criminal Case

Prosecutors Alleged Patient Information Used to Seek Drugs By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee for Healthcare Info Security In a rare criminal case involving a HIPAA violation, a federal jury in Ohio has convicted a former respiratory therapist of wrongly obtaining individually identifiable health information. Prosecutors claimed the therapist was using the information for seeking, obtaining or…

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DEA Wants Inside Your Medical Records to Fight the War on Drugs

By Christopher Moraff for The Daily Beast The feds are fighting to look at millions of private files without a warrant, including those of two transgender men who are taking testosterone. Marlon Jones was arrested for taking legal painkillers, prescribed to him by a doctor, after a double knee replacement. Jones, an assistant fire chief of Utah’s…

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MACRA, MIPS: Slated to Make an M-pressive Impact

By Mike Bassett for For The Record, Vol. 28 No. 5 P. 16 With the announcement of the proposed rule, the M&M acronyms are quickly becoming top of mind for health care executives. In the long tradition of producing acronyms at a frightening pace, the health care industry has succeeded in producing two more that are rolling…

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Thousands Of NFL Players’ Medical Records Stolen From Skins Trainer

By Barry Petchesky for DEADSPIN In late April, the NFL recently informed its players, a Skins athletic trainer’s car was broken into. The thief took a backpack, and inside that backpack was a cache of electronic and paper medical records for thousands of players, including NFL Combine attendees from the last 13 years. That would…

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Analyzing Eight Months of ICD-10

Article by Mary Butler. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on June, 2016 and is republished here with permission. Teachers know there are two kinds of students. Student A studies and does their assigned reading throughout the whole semester, earning extra credit where they can. When the final exam rolls up, they’re…

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DEVELOPING: CMS Releases 2017 ICD-10-PCS Codes

By Laurie M. Johnson, MS, RHIA, CPC-H, FAHIMA for ICD10 monitor The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2017 ICD-10-PCS codes as well as other supporting documentation on Thursday. Before you get excited, the 2017 ICD-10-CM codes have not been released yet. The additional supporting documentation includes the 2017 ICD-10-PCS Official Coding and Reporting…

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Hospital Pays $2.2 Million HIPAA Penalty for Reality Show Participation

Article by Mary Butler. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on May 18, 2016 and is republished here with permission. New York Presbyterian Hospital was slapped with a $2.2 million fine for allowing a network reality show film the death of a trauma patient without seeking permission from the patient’s family. The…

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Healthcare CEO Faces Life in Prison for Fraud That Led to 2 Patient Deaths

By Ayla Ellison for Becker’s Hospital Review The CEO and co-owner of a Maryland diagnostics company is facing life in prison after a federal jury convicted him of two counts of healthcare fraud that resulted in death, according to the Department of Justice. On Wednesday, a federal jury found 67-year-old Rafael Chikvashvili, PhD, guilty of healthcare…

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