Article Archive for March 2016
Working as a Team Makes the EHR Process Easier
Physicians continue to complain and express dissatisfaction with their electronic health records (EHRs). It is imperative going forward that providers are part of the team so that all motivations for success are equally shouldered. Becker’s Hospital …
Identifying All the Offenders
It is not just the providers who are being caught red-handed in Medicare fraud. Many patients have been identified as abusing the system. This information came to us from the Lincoln Journal Star out of …
Working Together for Better Healthcare
Health care is easily one of the largest chunks of the United States economy. It represents approximately $2.8 trillion dollars in the market. Politicians continue to debate about the best way forward in healthcare management, population …
ICD What?
After much work and more delays than we want to count, the healthcare industry completed the ICD-10 transition on October 1, 2015. By five months past the integration date, there did not seem to be any …
Drama and Anxiety Around EHR Implementation
A hospital executive resigned from his post at a New York hospital because he claimed that a planned Epic electronic health record (EHR) implementation could lead to patient harm, even death. Healthcare IT News brought this …
Health Data Management
A semantic graph database developer is harnessing technology to create healthcare data lakes so providers can use open data and their own for predictive analytics. Tech Target brought this interesting news to our attention in their …
Flexibility Is Key
Electronic medical records (EMRs) have changed many things, not least how chronic care planning is handled. A report released Thursday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows an increasing proportion of Canada’s doctors are turning …
More Codes Coming
Five months after the ICD-10 coding transition, there is word that more codes – 5,500+ more – are scheduled to be introduced this coming October. Health Data Management brought this news to us in their article,”Thousands of …
Pros and Cons of EHRs
Physicians and providers have complained from the beginning of electronic health records (EHRs) that they are taking time away from the patients. Despite the repeated proof of benefits coming from the sharing and analyzying of …
EHR Frustration Continues
Electronic health records (EHR) continue to be a subject of conversation among healthcare information professionals and providers. Healthcare IT News brought this information to us in their article, “Frustrations linger around electronic health records and …
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