Electronic Health Record

Health IT Execs Have a New Favorite Dirty Word

By Tom Sullivan for Healthcare IT News athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush, eClinicalWorks Founder Girish Navani and Cerner President Zane Burke talk about expanding their technology platforms and, in so doing, shedding a certain three-letter acronym. When eClinicalWorks rechristened its flagship electronic health record software as the cloud-based 10e, CEO Girish Navani said something curious: “I don’t…

Read MoreHealth IT Execs Have a New Favorite Dirty Word

4 Medical Billing Issues Affecting Healthcare Revenue Cycle

By Jacqueline Belliveau for RevCycle Intelligence Addressing these four common medical billing challenges can have a positive impact on the healthcare revenue cycle. Medical billing is the backbone of healthcare revenue cycle management, but many providers experience significant challenges with efficiently and accurately billing patients and payers for services they perform. The medical billing process…

Read More4 Medical Billing Issues Affecting Healthcare Revenue Cycle

Health System to Pay $5.55 Million in Largest Ever HIPAA Settlement

By Emily Mongan for McKnight’s A major Illinois healthcare system will pay $5.55 million to settle allegations of HIPAA noncompliance, marking the largest settlement to date against a single entity, officials said. The allegations against Advocate Health Care Network, which operates 12 acute-care hospitals and more than 400 other sites of care across the state, involve…

Read MoreHealth System to Pay $5.55 Million in Largest Ever HIPAA Settlement

EHR-Enabled Fraud Remains a Concern

By Cheryl Branche for Medical Economics Imagine, in an effort to bill a higher fee, a colleague cuts and pastes a complete history and physical examination you wrote in the electronic health record (EHR) of your patient, but forgets to make adjustments based on his/her findings. This is happening with EHRs in hospitals and practices nationwide. While…

Read MoreEHR-Enabled Fraud Remains a Concern

Did U.S. Technology Gap Push Medical Errors Into 3rd Leading Cause Of Death?

By Donald Voltz, MD for Health IT Outcomes Hardly a day goes by without some new revelation of a U.S. IT mess that seems like an endless round of the old radio show joke contest “Can You Top This” except, increasingly, the joke is on us. From nuclear weapons updated with floppy disks to needless medical…

Read MoreDid U.S. Technology Gap Push Medical Errors Into 3rd Leading Cause Of Death?

Coding and the Third-Party Option

By Selena Chavis for For The Record As outsourcing models gain a foothold, health care organizations weigh the pros and cons. Outsourced models are increasingly recognized as an attractive and viable option for a number of operational areas within health care organizations. In line with this trend, many organizations are considering the potential of moving either…

Read MoreCoding and the Third-Party Option

4 Stolen Health Databases Reportedly for Sale on Dark Web

Hacker Takes Credit for Theft of Data on Nearly 10 Million Patients By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee for Data Breach Today A hacker is reportedly selling on the dark web copies of databases stolen from three unidentified U.S. healthcare organizations and one unnamed health insurer containing data on nearly 10 million individuals for prices ranging from…

Read More4 Stolen Health Databases Reportedly for Sale on Dark Web

Why Electronic Medical Records Are Not Patient-Centric

By Laurence Chu, MD, FACS for Forbes Current information technology is lacking an efficient and comprehensive solution to everyday care for the healthcare provider and patient. For many physicians, there is a forced acceptance of the electronic medical record (EMR). Providers have choices from EMR vendors like athenahealth, Cerner CERN, eClinicalWorks, Epic , General Electric’s…

Read MoreWhy Electronic Medical Records Are Not Patient-Centric

Unfinished Business

By Susan Chapman for For The Record Findings from The Joint Commission show many surveyed hospitals house incomplete medical records. When so many aspects of health care revolve around quality documentation, it would be good to know that providers are accomplished medical record custodians. Depending on your perspective, the news on that front isn’t half…

Read MoreUnfinished Business
Dolbey Systems, Inc.