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Written for FierceHealthFinance Almost half (49 percent) of community hospitals in the United States are operating at margins of 2 percent or less, according to a recent report from healthcare IT provider Anthelio Healthcare Solutions, presented at last month’s annual Community Hospital 100 conference in Pinehurst Resort, N.C. More than one-fifth of the hospitals (22…
By Bernie Monegain for HealthcareIT News SAN ANTONIO, TX – Less than 10 percent of healthcare providers are more than halfway ready for ICD-10, according to a new report from research firm KLAS. Two that are well on their way to compliance, however, are Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego and St. Louis, Mo.-based SSM…
Written for FierceHealthFinance Are nonprofit hospital execs paid too much? Seven 7-figure paychecks Nonprofit hospitals are usually bulwarks of the community in terms of the services and jobs they provide. Many provide millions of dollars in charity patient care. Some create innovative programs that vastly improve the care infrastructure. Click here to read the entire…
By Bernie Monegain, Editor, Healthcare IT News SALT LAKE CITY – If the health information managers in the audience at the annual AHIMA Convention in Salt Lake City on Tuesday morning were not already overwhelmed by ICD-10, once T.B Ustun, MD, hit the stage, they would be. It was just a few minutes into his…
TRICARE says lost backup tapes fall under FTC jurisdiction, not HIPAA, so only offers 90 days of fraud protection. By Neil Versel for InformationWeek A data breach involving nearly 5 million people treated at military healthcare facilities over a 19-year period is raising questions about whether U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rules supersede Health Insurance…
By Joe Bormel, M.D., MPH, for Healthcare Informatics The 83rd annual convention of AHIMA is getting underway as I write this, and with it HIM is at the center of the biggest regulatory reforms in most of our careers, ARRA/MU and ICD-10. At this event, new and evolving approaches to coder’s workflow in the MU…
By Jaimie Oh for Becker’s Hospital Review The reasons hospital and health system leaders should be concerned with driving down preventable readmissions are clear. Under healthcare reform, healthcare providers with high levels of preventable readmissions face the potential of losing a portion of their federal payments. The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, which is part of…
By Michael E Hilts for Health Management Technology Healthcare CIOs have their hands full with meaningful-use missions and other priorities. But their pockets are fuller, too, with a growing compensation and healthy bonuses. One could say that healthcare chief information officers are in their heyday. In fact, times might not get much better, or busier,…
Written by David Lee Scher, MD, FACP, FACC, FESC, FHRS for Healthcare IT News Blog By all accounts, the current status of adoption of EHR in the USA is slower than anticipated by the government. There are multiple reasons both from the mandate side and the provider side. Small practices are finding financial and administrative…
Originally published by AHIMA Problem lists facilitate continuity of patient care by providing a comprehensive and accessible list of patient problems in one place. Problem lists used within health records are a list of illnesses, injuries, and other factors that affect the health of an individual patient, usually identifying the time of occurrence or identification…