Articles tagged with: affordable care act
10 Year Anniversary of Meaningful Use
Can you believe it has been a decade since the federal electronic health record (EHR) incentive program was implemented? The program became known as meaningful use and was a transformative event for the health IT sector. …
Tomorrow’s Health Care Reform
Health care reform is a general term used for discussing major health policy creation or changes. For the most part this means governmental policy that affects health care delivery in a given place.
For the better half of a decade, lawmakers in …
Tomorrow’s EHRs
Electronic health records (EHRs) brought the potential to provide many benefits for providers and their patients, and some of those benefits continue to be realized. All healthcare organizations that are either transitioning to an EHR …
Medical Scribes Are Changing the Patient Experience
The medical scribe is a new member of the patient care team. In the exam room as the doctor starts asking you questions, the scribe begins typing. This scenario is becoming increasingly common in doctor’s …
EHR Vendor Misrepresents Certification
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology (HIT) formed a Standards Committee to focus on electronic health record (EHR) certification requirements. The committee …
Staying on Top of Compliance
There has been a paradoxical struggle of physicians spending significant amounts of time reporting quality data to actually delivering quality medical care to their patients. This is often blamed on technology and/or compliance regulations. This particular …
Keeping Up with the Changes
Change is never-ending for healthcare. Ambulatory surgery centers (ACSs) are one area that needs to always stay on top of the seemingly nonstop influx of contractual and coding changes, which can have a direct impact …
Digital Health Data Security
As health records are increasingly stored electronically, they’re also more vulnerable to digital theft. In a pre-digital world, thieves would have to make off with a filing cabinet. In 2015, the same information could fit …
EHRs Are Making Differences Everywhere
The healthcare industry is in the process of changing its perspective from volume to value. That might be hard to believe if you work in the industry. Remember that changes can create chaos, but taking a little …
EHRs in the Big Picture
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced plans to overhaul of the federal electronic health record (EHR) incentive programs. This leaves healthcare organizations wondering how those plans will unfold and specifically, what …
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