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By Avery Comarow and Ben Harder for U.S. News & World Report Rankings by specialty and ratings by procedure and condition, plus the elite 20-hospital Honor Roll. Ever since 1970, patients have been checking into a hospital somewhere in America at a pace slightly faster than one every second, adding up to more than 33 million…
By Mac McMillan for Healthcare Informatics Last week I saw two ugly scenarios play out that did nothing positive for healthcare or its mission to protect patient information. The first incident involved escalations of the cyber threats healthcare organizations face. We were introduced to the hacker “The Dark Overlord” who had hacked multiple hospitals and…
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…
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…
Article by Mary Butler. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on July 12, 2016 and is republished here with permission. A new proposed rule would reduce the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) “meaningful use” EHR Incentive Program reporting period for clinicians, hospitals, and critical access hospitals. The new reporting period would…
Article by Mary Butler. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on June 13, 2016 and is republished here with permission. The implementation of ICD-10 did result in a perceived loss of coding productivity, with a minimal dip in coding accuracy, according to a recent coding productivity and accuracy survey. The survey was…
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…
Article by Tammy Combs. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on June 23, 2016 and is republished here with permission. Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) programs are quickly emerging in various areas of the healthcare arena. We now see these programs specializing both prior to and beyond the acute hospital admission. Just as…
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…
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…