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Category: Healthcare Industry News
Why EMS Must Be Part of Health Information Exchanges
Date: May 28th, 2016Source: EMS WorldTopics: HIE, Care Coordination, Emergency ServicesHospitals are starting to share more information with each other, labs and clinics are participating, and doctors are beginning to have better information with which to treat patients. Despite these efforts, there is a huge piece that is missing from the equation that many people still fail to recognize—ambulance data.
Read MorePatient-Centered Medical Home takes team approach to care
Date: May 25th, 2016Source: BizWestTopics: Medical Home ModelProponents of the new model — which stresses a team approach to providing health care rather than the single gateway that has long been the role of the primary-care physician — hope it also will become synonymous with better health. The incoming results of the new model, which is rapidly gathering steam with both physicians and insurance companies, have been remarkably positive this far.
Read MoreHospital engagement networks end; new initiative takes over
Date: May 25th, 2016Source: Modern HealthcareTopics: Value-Based Care, Hospital Readmissions, Patient CareA new effort to curb adverse events in hospitals and cut readmissions will replace and expand hospital engagement networks, or HENs. A similar but more ambitious initiative known as the hospital improvement and innovation networks or HIINs is now looking for interested providers.
Read MoreMACRA backers tell providers: Now is your last chance to sway the outcome
Date: May 20th, 2016Source: Healthcare DiveTopics: Meaningful Use, MACRA, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)While the law is a huge legislative step from volume to value, it's still a proposed rule and can be changed. Whether it is a perception of undue burden on small practices or the implementation timeline is too aggressive, submit comments and make your voice heard to CMS to suggest changes. The agency will take public comments on the MACRA implementation proposed rule until June 27.
Read MoreWhat Entities Need to Know about Upcoming OCR HIPAA Audits
Date: May 19th, 2016Source: HealthIT SecurityTopics: EHRs, HIPAAThe latest round of OCR HIPAA audits were announced earlier this year, leading many healthcare organizations to review their HIPAA compliance measures and ensure that all necessary policies and procedures have been properly documented. The second phase will not only review covered entities’ practices, but also how business associates work toward keeping PHI secure.
Read MoreONC Details Plan to Improve Data Standards, Big Data Analytics
Date: May 17th, 2016Source: HealthIT AnalyticsTopics: HIE, Health IT, Information BlockingONC has proposed several pieces of legislation promoting better and more effective data standards for health information exchange, which would help to support the use of healthcare big data analytics to improve patient care.
Read MorePreventing Readmissions Through Enhanced Care Team Collaboration
Date: May 12th, 2016Source: RCM AnswersTopics: Care Coordination, Transitions of CareAs the healthcare industry transitions from a fee-for-service system, we must expand our focus from “discharge” to care continuity. No longer can we discharge responsibility for a patient to another care setting. Rather, we must shift our perspective and provide continuous coordinated care across multiple sites and settings. To do this efficiently, enabling care team collaboration technology is imperative.
Read MoreReducing Medical Errors with Improved Communication, EHR Use
Date: May 11th, 2016Source: EHR IntelligenceTopics: HIE, EHRs, Patient CareSimilarly, Dexter sees a valuable role for health information exchange to provide a longitudinal record of a patient that enables providers to view a patient's allergies and history of illness in a single location.
Read MoreEHR-immunization data exchange boosts pediatric vaccinations
Date: May 9th, 2016Source: Health Data ManagementTopics: EHRs, Public Health Reporting, Duplicate TestingThe exchange of immunization data between a centralized city immunization registry and provider electronic health records led to significant improvements in pediatric immunization coverage, a reduction in over-immunization for adolescents, and more complete immunization records.
Read MorePost-Acute Care Can Help Accountable Care Organizations Save
Date: May 6th, 2016Source: RevCycle IntelligenceTopics: Long-Term Care, Transitions of Care, Accountable CareAccountable care organizations may find financial opportunities in developing closer partnerships with post-acute care and long-term care facilities.
Read MoreNATE congratulates CMS on its commitment to patient access to data in proposed MACRA rule
Date: May 4th, 2016Source: DotMed.comTopics: HIE, MACRA, InteroperabilityNATE is especially excited by the proposal to award extra performance points to providers who demonstrate more than a minimal commitment to patient access to data, patient engagement and health information exchange.
Read MoreComparing Advancing Care Information to Meaningful Use
Date: May 4th, 2016Source: EHR IntelligenceTopics: EHRs, Meaningful Use, MACRA, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesCMS released a fact sheet that outlines how the proposed Advancing Care Information program will replace meaningful use and clinical quality reporting.
Read MoreElectronic records help cancer care: study
Date: May 2nd, 2016Source: The Chronicle JournalTopics: EHRs, Care Coordination, Patient CareA study released last week by the Canada Health Infoway states that 57 per cent of electronic medical record enabled clinics reported that using such records was beneficial for improving quality of care.
Read MoreHospital discharge: It’s one of the most dangerous periods for patients
Date: April 29th, 2016Source: Washington PostTopics: Care Coordination, Transitions of Care, Patient CareMedication mistakes like the one in Oyler’s case — which slipped past both her pharmacist and home health nurses, according to court records — are, in fact, one of the most common complications for discharged patients. The federal government views them as “a major patient safety and public health issue,” and a Kaiser Health News analysis of government records shows such errors are frequently missed by home health agencies.
Read MoreCMS releases MACRA proposed final rule
Date: April 27th, 2016Source: Healthcare DiveTopics: Meaningful Use, MACRA, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)CMS released on Wednesday the proposed final rule for the Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). The rule establishes the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) which consolidates components of the Physician-Quality Reporting System, the Physician Value-based Payment Modifier, and the Medicare EHR Incentive Program for eligible professionals.
Read MoreHIPAA audit protocol signals audit process underway
Date: April 25th, 2016Source: TechTargetTopics: HIPAAAs it prepares to launch audits of healthcare organizations and their business associates, OCR issues audit protocol as a guide to compliance with HIPAA security and privacy rules.
Read MoreHow are companies harnessing APIs for healthcare?
Date: April 25th, 2016Source: MedCity NewsTopics: Interoperability, API, FHIROne of the first things a new developer in healthcare quickly realizes is integrating and launching your application on top of medical data can be a total nightmare and often a showstopper. There are hundreds of electronic medical record (EMR) vendors and every implementation has a different “flavor” of a handful of competing standards.
Read MoreAs funding ends, Regional Extension Centers adjust business models
Date: April 22nd, 2016Source: Health Data ManagementTopics: Transformation Support Services, Regional Extension CenterAlthough the Regional Extension Center program will officially sunset at the end of 2016, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT estimates that 90 percent of the 62 current RECs will continue to operate nationwide, helping providers to adopt electronic health records and meaningfully use them.
Read MoreBetter Health IT Interoperability Needed to Close Gaps in Care
Date: April 20th, 2016Source: HealthIT AnalyticsTopics: HIE, Health IT, Care Coordination, InteroperabilityHealth IT interoperability serves as a considerable barrier to mitigating gaps in care, according to a recent white paper published by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) in partnership with the Louis W. Sullivan Institute for Healthcare Innovation.
Read MorePreparing Your Organization for MACRA 1.0
Date: April 20th, 2016Source: The Healthcare BlogTopics: Meaningful Use, MACRA, Transformation Support Services, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)Although 2019 seems far away, health systems need to start thinking about MACRA now. For the most part, health systems and physicians haven’t realized the impact of this shift; nor have they determined the right strategies. There are several things health systems can do to start preparing for MACRA now:
Read MoreWhat We Know About Value-Based Care Under MACRA, MIPS, APMs
Date: April 19th, 2016Source: RevCycle IntelligenceTopics: Meaningful Use, MACRA, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), APMMACRA and its many provisions in Section 101 go into effect in 2019. Here's what we know so far.
Read MorePCMHs, ACOs More Likely to Use EHRs for Population Health
Date: April 18th, 2016Source: HealthIT AnalyticsTopics: EHRs, Medical Home Model, Accountable CareA new survey published this month in the American Journal of Managed Care found that providers who had adopted EHRs in 2012 were significantly more likely than non-users to engage in population health management, patient communication, and care coordination activities.
Read MoreMACRA-economics 101: Prepare today for tomorrow's outcomes
Date: April 18th, 2016Source: Healthcare IT NewsTopics: Meaningful Use, MACRA, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)Starting in 2019, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, will change how they pay physicians in a profound way. Unfortunately, the details are complicated and confusing, and many of the particulars have yet to be worked out, which has led many healthcare leaders to glaze over the details and focus on more immediate concerns
Read MoreReducing Medicare Spending Through Electronic Information Exchange: The Role of Incentives and Exchange Maturity
Date: April 16th, 2016Source: SSRNTopics: HIE, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesWe find significant cost reductions in healthcare markets that have established operational HIEs, with an average reduction in spending of $139 (1.4% decrease) per Medicare beneficiary per year. We also find that these reductions occur disproportionately in healthcare markets where providers have financial incentives to use an HIE to reduce spending and when HIEs are more mature.
Read MoreTop 5 Ingredients of a Successful Accountable Care Organization
Date: April 15th, 2016Source: RevCycle IntelligenceTopics: HIE, EHRs, Health IT, Accountable Care...health IT can play a role in an ACO’s ability to communicate effectively while managing patients across different care settings. Advanced use of health information exchange and a robust EHR infrastructure can ensure that patient data is available to as many providers as possible
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