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CCHIT Confident in Becoming Accredited EHR Certifying Body
March 3, 2010 12:50 PM by Frank Irving
Statement from Alisa Ray, executive director, Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) Having reviewed the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding certifying bodies, we feel confident about [CCHIT's] prospects of becoming accredited. Read More...
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HHS Releases NPRM on Testing and Certifying EHRs
March 3, 2010 12:40 PM by Frank Irving
On March 2 the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) outlining the proposed approach for establishing a certification program to test and certify electronic health records (EHRs). In an Read More...
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Top 10 Health Law Issues for 2010
February 8, 2010 4:09 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Stephen W. Bernstein, a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP The year 2010 brings heightened health care focus on compliance, reform efforts and enforcement. This article breaks down the top 10 issues of this Read More...
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Companion Guides are Major Obstacles to Automating Health Care Transactions
January 20, 2010 5:02 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Randal J. Roat, CHBME, board member and past-president of the Healthcare Billing & Management Association Why is it that I can put a credit card in a machine halfway around the world and get cash, yet the health care industry Read More...
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AHA Issues Statement on Meaningful Use
January 4, 2010 3:01 PM by Frank Irving
Association voices concerns about hospitals' ability to access HIT financing. Guest commentary from Rick Pollack, executive vice president, American Hospital Association America's hospitals have serious concerns that the new health information technology Read More...
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Preparing for a Hurricane That May Blow Over
November 23, 2009 8:50 PM by Frank Irving
Physicians must be educated on proper documentation to meet ICD-10 code-set specificity and payer-coverage policies. Guest commentary from Holly Louie, RN, CHBME, PCS, corporate compliance officer at Practice Management, Inc., in Boise, Idaho The reimbursement Read More...
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Achieving Meaningful Use
November 17, 2009 11:33 AM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Celwyn C. Evans, a senior partner at Greencastle Associates Consulting in Malvern, Pa. With the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Read More...
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Building a Foundation for Health Care Transformation
November 12, 2009 10:56 AM by Frank Irving
Evidence-based medicine will improve the quality of care and impact of each health care dollar spent. Guest commentary from Marc Perlman, g lobal vice president, Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry, Oracle The U.S. health care industry is challenged Read More...
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MGMA Pleased with House Vote on Health Reform
November 9, 2009 12:56 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from William F. Jessee, MD, FACMPE, president and CEO of the Medical Group Management Association The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) is pleased that the House has voted favorably on H.R. 3962 (The Affordable Health Care for Read More...
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'More is Better' Only Applies to Technology
September 21, 2009 11:28 AM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary by Andrew Schuyler, chief medical officer at MEDecision. In a recent article on the San Francisco Chronicle 's Web site, Dr. Deepak Chopra speculates that a lot of what's wrong with health care today can be attributed to the false notion Read More...
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Health Care Reform
September 8, 2009 12:10 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary by Ward Keever, executive director of executive services for CTG HealthCare Solutions. Mr. Keever serves on ADVANCE's editorial advisory board. The hot topic for this summer has been health care reform. It has consumed our Congress as Read More...
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Patient Safety: Getting the Name Wrong May be Fatal
August 13, 2009 10:48 AM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary by Dr. Bruce Lambert, University of Illinois at Chicago professor, Department of Pharmacy Administration, and president, Pharm I. R., Inc.; and Dr. Leonard A Shaefer, IBM chief scientist, Global Name Recognition After taking Flomax, used Read More...
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E-prescribers Pass 100,000 Milestone
April 24, 2009 1:46 PM by Frank Irving
Surecripts, operator of the nation's largest electronic prescribing network, reported on April 22 that more than 100,000 prescribers are now routing prescriptions electronically in the United States. Surescripts made the announcement in conjunction with Read More...
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Keeping Digital Medical Records Secure
April 17, 2009 4:27 PM by Frank Irving
By now, just about everyone in the industry knows that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)'s provisions include more than $20 billion in funding for technology investments by health care organizations. However, some of the deeper implications Read More...
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Will the Weight of EMRs Break IT?
April 9, 2009 4:53 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Alex Adamopoulos, executive vice president and COO of Exigen Services Pulling together as a nation to overhaul an aging, often paper-based medical records system is long overdue. We can all agree it will create jobs, pump money into Read More...
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