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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…
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)…
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…
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?…
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…
Cincinnati, OH, November 19, 2013 – Dolbey today announced that Covenant Health, East Tennessee’s leading provider of healthcare, has selected the Fusion CAC solution for each of their seven hospitals. Increased coder productivity and improved financial performance were driving factors in making this decision while preparing for the dramatic healthcare change to ICD-10. Covenant’s physicians…
The health care and social-assistance sector has been rapidly growing in recent years and is expected to generate the largest number of jobs, a total of 5.6 million, and grow at an annual rate of 3%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is the most dramatic growth of any sector in the country,…
By Marty Stempniak for Hospital & Health Networks The explosion of retail clinics worries some traditional health care providers. But clinic leaders say far from competing with hospitals are physicians, they’re helping to build a care continuum. Framing the issue The number of retail health clinics could double to 2,400 locations in the next three…
Health system now to ‘expedite’ encryption By Erin McCann for Healthcare IT News Despite the revamped federal HIPAA Omnibus Rule which holds covered entities and business associates more accountable for failing to adequately protect patients’ health information, some groups continue to make the same old avoidable mistakes. AHMC Healthcare, a six-hospital health system in Alhambra,…
By Molly Gamble for Becker’s Hospital Review Pittsburgh-based UPMC has maintained its claim it has zero employees and said the city of Pittsburgh “has not, and cannot, identify a single person who is employed by or on the payroll of UPMC, the parent holding company,” according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report. Instead, in a filing…