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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Help for physicians in planning for the ICD-10 transition

By Carl Natale of ICD-10 Watch , posted at PhysBizTech Physicians will be a key part of making the ICD-10 transition successful. This post focuses on helping doctors become more comfortable with the new code sets. HealthStream outlined these steps in the white paper “Preparing a Successful ICD-10 Transition : Helping Physicians Succeed in an…

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Father says HIPAA law may have contributed to son’s death

By Ali Gorman, R.N. for Action News 6, Philadelphia, PA PHILADELPHIA – April 2, 2013 (WPVI) — If you have visited any medical center in the past 15 years, you have probably heard of the HIPAA privacy law. One local father is now urging lawmakers to change it. He says it is too strict in…

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