In the introduction to this blog series, we talked about the sacking of traditional fee-for-service payments and the rapid push to value-based models that reward quality and cost-effectiveness over the quantity of services provided. For this article, imagine you are
The transition to ICD-10 has felt like watching a movie in slo-mo. Although it’s been more than a quarter of a century (1990 to be exact) since the World Health Organization endorsed the revised classification system, the U.S. moved at
History will doubtless record the collapse of healthcare’s traditional fee-for-service model. While the ransacking of fee-for-service has taken longer than Visigoth King Alaric’s three-day siege and sack of Rome in 410 AD, both the medical community and the Romans should
Madelyn Young contributed to this post For a long time in medicine, a ‘bundle’ referred to a bunch of parallel fibers in the body, like a muscle bundle or vascular bundle. Now that we’re moving toward value-based care, however, a
Complying with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) can be unnerving for medical groups and providers, especially when failure to comply can lead to fines from $100 all the way up to $50,000 or more per violation. Private
It’s October 2015 – the long awaited time when everyone in healthcare switches to the ICD-10 code system. Hopefully your workflow and revenue continue full steam ahead without any serious dips or disruptions. On the lighter side, we’re sharing our
Update October 7, 2015: AMA prevails again, with CMS making attestation for Stage 3 Meaningful Use optional in 2017. As it stands now, CMS expects some eligible physicians in their EHR incentive program to meet Meaningful Use Stage 3
Power Your Practice continues to focus on the state of individual medical specialties and the functionality each requires from their health IT. In this updated post, we take a closer look at cardiology with its distinct set of challenges and
Each medical specialty faces a distinctive set of challenges and, as a result, demands different software functionality. In this updated installment of our specialty snapshot series, we look at the field of pulmonology and identify the kind of software functionality
