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By Tulsi Patil for KTUU.com ANCHORAGE – An Anchorage woman was sentenced to two years in federal prison Monday for violations to medical privacy laws, U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler’s office announced in a press release. According to prosecutors, 33-year-old Stacy Laulu was a financial counselor at Providence Hospital in March, 2013 when she was contacted…
By Government Health IT Staff for Government Health IT The use of electronic clinical quality measures (eCQM) for reporting data will be “invaluable” for monitoring numerous clinical conditions, according to research published in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidly and Mortality Weekly Report. The report used eCQM data that was submitted by 63,000…
By US News and World Report Washington, D.C. – May 20, 2015 – U.S. News & World Report, publisher of Best Hospitals, today unveiled the broadest expansion of its analysis of hospital quality since it began ranking medical centers 25 years ago. The new Best Hospitals for Common Care ratings cover nearly every hospital in…
By Jennifer Bresnick for Health IT Analytics With the release of April’s ICD-10 end-to-end-testing week statistics, CMS hopes that evidence is building for a less-painful-than-expected transition. The 88 percent claims acceptance rate generated during the most recent…Read the rest of the article here.
Article by Chris Dimick, Editor-in-chief at the Journal of AHIMA. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on May 4, 2015 and is republished here with permission. A bill has been introduced into the US House of Representatives that would stop the implementation of ICD-10-CM The bill, H.R. 2126, would “prohibit…
By Modern Healthcare What are the best jobs in healthcare? If you didn’t pick audiology or biomedical engineering, then you might want to check out a recent ranking compiled by CareerCast, which lists the top 200 jobs in the U.S. The rankings take into account work environment, income potential, unemployment rates and the level of…
By Dr. Jonathan Elion, MD, FACC for HealthTECH Zone The Photographic Painting The value of a new technology is often not understood for many years after its invention. The first film cameras (remember those?) were initially used to capture landscapes, still life studies and portraits. In that regard, they were acting as a “photographic painting”,…
Source: iHealthBeat Electronic health records are increasingly being cited in medical malpractice lawsuits, Politico reports. According to a review of data by the Doctors Company, a physician-owned medical malpractice insurer, EHRs were involved in just 1% of a sample of lawsuits that had been closed between 2007 and 2013. However, the frequency of such EHR-related…
By Larry Husten for Forbes Here are two dirty little secrets about electronic health records (EHR). Just about everyone in the field already knows these secrets, and many are quietly horrified, but few want to discuss them since there are no obvious or easy solutions. EHRs Are a Threat to Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom…
By Sabriya Rice for Modern Healthcare The CMS floated a slate of tweaks to Medicare’s quality- and safety-reporting requirements in its sweeping proposed rule for 2016 inpatient hospital rates issued last week. Within the 1,500-page draft rule for the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems, the CMS outlines changes coming down the pike for the hospital…