In a Fast Company feature titled “Designers Are The New Drivers Of American Entrepreneurialism” last year, Bruce Nussbaum wrote the “growing desire among designers to bring their user focus, strategic vision, iterative methodologies, and propositional thinking […] promises to be
Like a myriad of providers, vendors and consultants are rushing to implement electronic medical records, it’s not difficult to imagine the frantic moment when meteors started falling from the sky above the dinosaurs as they stubbornly tried to evade their
Implementing an EHR for your practice results in Ibuprofen abuse without proper planning. However, ensuring your practice is prepared is often cumbersome, and online research can lead to dead-ends and roundabout explanations. How do you plan for EHR implementation? How
Once you’ve deployed an EHR system in your practice, your next step will be getting connected with other providers. Engaging in health information exchange (HIE) is a tenet of meaningful use and extremely valuable utilization of EHR technology. Whether you’re
Florida Hospital Flagler, a facility in the Adventist Health System, has become the first hospital in Florida to earn HIMSS Analytics’ Stage 7 Award for electronic medical records (EMR) implementation. The honor highlights Florida Hospital Flagler as an advanced adopter
Now that 2012 is upon us, your transactions should be compliant with the HIPAA 5010 policies. Hopefully, you didn’t delay your 5010 transition. Just because the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) won’t enforce their non-compliance penalties until March
While Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are 24-hour news darlings and inspire similar movements nationwide, there’s an online member of the Occupy family emerging from its older cousin’s shadow striving to make an impact. Occupy Healthcare differs from OWS in several
Patricia Galvin was the subject of a Wall Street Journal story five years ago detailing her medical records horror story. Galvin began psychotherapy at Stanford Hospital & Clinics in San Francisco to cope with her fiancé’s suicide. Following a serious
In an effort to improve healthcare and create jobs across the country, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced changes to the meaningful use timeline during a recent event in Cleveland. Among the policy, revisions is the extension of Stage 2 meaningful
When you’re consistently collecting on your submitted claims, it can be easy to trust that your routine is working perfectly. What you might not realize, though, is that certain procedures you have in place could be causing you to
