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CFO Roundtable: How Will 3 Major Changes for the Year Ahead Impact Finances?

By Heather Punke for Becker’s Hospital Review Four hospital and health system CFOs discuss ICD-10, the two-midnight rule and price transparency. Hospital and health system CFOs are used to dealing with change. However, 2014 brings a few significant developments that could significantly impact the financial health of organizations. With the new two-midnight rule, the switch…

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FTC: Medical transcription firm allowed histories to be on search engine

By Grant Gross on InfoWorld The agency announces a data-breach settlement with the California company A medical transcription company has agreed to settle a U.S. Federal Trade Commission complaint that its inadequate security measures allowed the personal information, including medical histories and examination notes, of thousands of people to be published on the Internet. The…

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Coding Crunch: 7 ICD-10 Lessons From Cedars-Sinai

By Bob Herman for Becker’s Hospital Review In 2011, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles did what many providers were hesitant to do: It decided to tackle ICD-10 as an inevitable change and began its work to transition to the new system. By contrast, only about 20 percent of providers believe they will complete or…

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Top Healthcare Jobs You Can Get Without a Four-Year Degree

By Martha C. White, Time Business & Money If you don’t think you have the time or money to invest in a healthcare job, think again. Medical professionals aren’t just doctors and nurses. The healthcare business is booming. Between an influx of newly insured people and an aging population, it’s a field with lots of…

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How Much More Will Smokers Pay for Obamacare?

By John Tozzi for Bloomberg Businessweek Lighting up may cost you under the Affordable Care Act. The health-care law bars insurers from charging people higher premiums for costly health conditions, so diabetics or cancer patients pay the same rate as healthy people the same age. But there’s an exception for the 19 percent of American…

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Rural Hospitals Rule on Leapfrog List

By Bernie Monegain, Editor for Healthcare IT News For the second consecutive year, rural hospitals stood out, with 22 hospitals making the Leapfrog Group’s 2013 Top Hospitals list – a 69 percent increase from last year. Rounding out the list are 55 urban hospitals and 13 children’s hospitals. To qualify for the award, eligible hospitals…

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Fraud-Wary Feds to Regulate EHR Copy-and-Paste Function

By Robert Lowes for Medscape Medical News The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is going to regulate the controversial copy-and-paste capability of electronic health record (EHR) systems in its campaign against billing fraud. CMS made its intentions known in response to a report released online today by the Office of Inspector General (OIG)…

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Three Ways to Improve U.S. Healthcare, as Demonstrated in India

By John Mandrola for  The Atlantic Listening to caregivers from other countries, it’s easy to feel exasperated about U.S healthcare. American hospitals are filled with good people trying to do good work, but at every turn the system of misplaced incentives gets in the way of good patient care. Indeed, the most pressing problem with…

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Is The ICD-10 Pilot Forecast A Perfect Storm for Healthcare?

By Edmund Billings, MD for HIT Consultant The “perfect storm” will be quickly descending upon the healthcare system. Let me concede from the outset that, in this article, I lean toward the negative—dire predictions, worst-case scenarios, a bit of doom and gloom, etc. But I ask you, oh gentle, patient reader, how could I not?…

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Dolbey Announces Patent Award for Its Fusion SpeechEMR Technology

Cincinnati, OH December 3, 2013 – On the eve of its 100-year anniversary, Dolbey and Company, Inc., which began in 1914 as a partner and dealer for Thomas A. Edison’s dictation machine company, announces the issuance of a United States patent for “Systems and Methods for Providing an Electronic Dictation Interface.” Dolbey’s patented technology is…

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