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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,…
Americans who sign up for insurance on the state exchanges may not have access to the nation’s top hospitals, Watchdog.org reports. By Tori Richards for Watchdog.org The Obama Administration has been claiming that insurance companies will be competing for your dollars under the Affordable Care Act, but apparently they haven’t surveyed the nation’s top hospitals.…
Organizations Join Forces to Improve Revenue Capture Through Improved Clinical Documentation CONCORD, Ohio, Oct. 24, 2013 — Dolbey Systems, a leading provider of Computer-Assisted Coding (CAC), and ChartWise Medical Systems, Inc., the leader in Computer-Assisted Clinical Documentation Improvement (CACDI), have formed a technology alliance enabling ChartWise:CDI and the recently announced second-generation ChartWise 2.0 software to…
By Erin McCann for Healthcare IT News ‘There really wasn’t any support from management on what was going on.’ The 24-hospital Sutter Health system in Northern California was the talk of the town late August after a software glitch rendered its $1 billion Epic electronic health record system inaccessible to nurses and clinical staff throughout…
By Tammy Worth for Healthcare Finance News Hospitals must strategize now to keep their revenue cycle from stalling The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has recommended that hospitals start testing for ICD-10 in 2013, but so far, many hospitals have not heeded that recommendation. That mistake could ultimately hit hospitals in the wallet. Business…
Written by Molly Gamble for Becker’s Hospital Review It’s been said that there are three types of people in the world: the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. The same could be said for organizations, particularly in healthcare. There are hospitals that will cling to the ways of the past. There are also organizations that…
The below article, published in Advance for Health Information Professionals, uses conflicting statistics from several groups and associations. Where does your organization stand? Will you be ready for ICD-10? We’d love to hear your comments! From Advance for Health Information Professionals The American Hospital Association (AHA) is optimistic that its members will be ready for…
ICD-10 testing is about knowing the answers. By Patrick McNeese for Advance for Health Information Professionals There’s an old maxim that says: “Lawyers should never ask a Georgia grandma a question if they aren’t prepared for the answer.” ICD-10 testing needs to support that truism. Prior to development of test scenarios and scripts, an understanding…
By Julie Knudson for For The Record It bears repeating: Poor dictation habits can severely affect quality of care and timely reimbursement. For years, physicians have been dictating their patient reports and for years, transcriptionists have been trying to figure out what they’re saying. But as the health care system evolves, technology such as EHRs…