(This sponsored blog was written by Lee Ann Bryant, associate product manager, HealthStream.) According to a recent survey conducted by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), an industry leader on the use of healthcare IT to improve the exchange of healthcare information, healthcare facilities as a whole are not on track for a ...

By Lee Ann Bryant, associate product manager, HealthStreamAlthough nearly all healthcare providers are aware of the Oct. 1, 2014, deadline, studies show that most are unprepared for this transition. Recognizing that these changes require widespread education and planning initiatives beyond just the coding population, Centers for Medicare and ...

(Editor's Note: Sou Chon Young, a senior consultant at Hayes Management Consulting specializing in healthcare revenue cycle management, wrote this blog.) As a healthcare consultant, I have observed the registration process at countless facilities. Recently, I found myself sitting on the other side of the desk as I waited in the patient ...

It’s hard to look your best when you are wearing too many hats.  While the business of health care struggles in a depressed economy and a revenue cycle containing a growing number of under and uninsured, pending government regulations such as HITECH, the Affordable Care Act, HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10 conversions have produced, for many,  a ...

(Editor's note: This guest blog was written by Scott Warner, MLT(ASCP), a laboratory manager in northern Maine.) When a new manager is hired, grumbling ensues. ''Now we have to break in another one!'' Your new boss is worried about motivating you and your coworkers, but the opposite is also true. How do you get a stranger to do things your way? ...