Healthcare

New HIPAA Rules Fortify Patient Privacy

By Kathleen Struck, Senior Editor, MedPage Today Addressing 15 years of digital advances in health record information, the Department of Health and Human Services released stronger rules and protections governing patient privacy last week. The long-awaited rules enhance the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), which governs health records and patient information.…

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Dolbey Speech Recognition is Best in KLAS

Dolbey Speech Recognition is Best in KLAS CINCINNATI, OH – Dolbey’s Fusion Expert® and Fusion SpeechEMR™ have been recognized as “2012 Best in KLAS” for Speech Recognition by KLAS, an independent healthcare research firm that designates the best vendors in various software and services. This highly regarded award is a culmination of vendor scores collected…

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Who Will Be The Steve Jobs Of Healthcare?

By Joon Yun for Forbes Hospital, heal thyself. Almost everyone feels ill when thinking about the rising cost of healthcare in this country; it already stands at a gut-churning $2.7 trillion per year. Similarly, most folks find hospitals uncomfortable, even frightening. Both high costs and low satisfaction share a root cause: Poorly designed medical infrastructure.…

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Bargain Over Fiscal Cliff Brings Changes To Health Care

by Julie Rovner for NPR The bill that prevented the nation from plunging over the fiscal cliff did more than just stop income tax increases and delay across-the-board spending cuts. It also included several provisions that tweaked Medicare and brought bigger changes to other health care programs. The health care change that got the most…

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Leapfrog’s New Safety Report Card Alarms Hospitals

by Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media Some 25 hospitals, including 520-bed Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, received a failing grade of F, while another 121 hospitals, including the Cleveland Clinic, got a barely passing D in the release today of the controversial Leapfrog Group Hospital Safety Score, an effort to inform patients…

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Safeguarding Patient Data in EHRs

From SmartData Collective A recent blog by the HIPAA, HITECH & HIT legal blog of Fox Rothschild revealed a survey administered by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS). The EHR (electronic health record) technology questionnaire is part of a study on fraud and abuse safeguards…

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Medicare Is Faulted on Shift to Electronic Records

By REED ABELSON for The New York Times The conversion to electronic medical records — a critical piece of the Obama administration’s plan for health care reform — is “vulnerable” to fraud and abuse because of the failure of Medicare officials to develop appropriate safeguards, according to a sharply critical report to be issued Thursday…

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Dolbey Announces Ability to Automate Contrast Dose Capture with Fusion Suite to Improve Radiology Documentation Workflow

Dolbey Announces Ability to Automate Contrast Dose Capture with Fusion Suite to Improve Radiology Documentation Workflow Chicago, IL- At the 98th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting (RSNA) Dolbey announces they have recently extended interfacing capability of its Fusion product suite for clinical documentation to the Bayer Certegra® SR Outbound Interface.   Utilizing this new connectivity, when…

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Conflict of interest alleged in UnitedHealth Group

By Alexander Bolton for The Hill The Obama administration is relying heavily on outside contractors to implement a core component of healthcare reform as it races to set up a federal health insurance marketplace before 2014. The fast-approaching deadline gives the administration little time to scrutinize private-sector partners for conflicts of interest. The purchase of…

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