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By Helen Gregg for Becker’s Health IT President Barack Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2015 reflects his commitment to advancing health IT by maintaining or increasing funding to several key agencies. The proposed budget allocates $75 million to the ONC to help the department continue its efforts to support the adoption of electronic health…
By Kris B. Mamula for Pittsburgh Business Times The data spill affecting UPMC employees has grown, snaring 322 workers as of Wednesday, up from 22 employees two weeks ago, the health care system said Friday. Fraudsters have used UPMC employee data to electronically file phony income tax returns in an identity theft scheme that UPMC…
By: Diane Taylor, RN-BC, EHR Intelligence If you think ICD-10 is all about new codes, you are dead wrong. ICD-10 is really about “documentation” ─ we clinicians have learned from day one that, “If it’s not documented, it wasn’t done.” This situation is even truer in the ICD-10 world, where the coder must build the…
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…
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…
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…