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Gomerblog On EHR's...
Gotta love < a href= " http://www.gomerblog.com/ " > Gomerblog < /a > . In fact, I urge all of you to subscribe for a dose of medical humor far more sophisticated than what I provide here. Today ' s entry follows upon the heels of the wishful thinking April Fools ' Day post. (I do have it on good authority that Apple really IS working on medical software, but my source would have had to kill me had he elaborated.) The dirty little secret seems to be that the EHR programmers didn ' t know their software would be used on real, live patients! & nbsp;Wow... F...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - April 13, 2016 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs

Physicians and patients must retake control of how health care is delivered
For years, many physicians have complained about the onerous nature of government-certified electronic medical records. However, thanks to the HITECH Act, the rush to digitize medical records has continued. Due to the impetus provided by the ACA and subsequently by MACRA, the mad rush has progressed into a frenzy of data-collecting and reporting activity, all in the name of value over volume. Recently, two objective reports have surfaced demonstrating the futility of all these untested efforts. The first report in Health Affairs, “U.S. Physician Practices Spend More Than $15.4 Billion Annually To Report Quality Meas...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 13, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Arvind Cavale, MD Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs

Working with today’s EMRs is mentally exhausting
I was at a locums assignment yesterday using FEEMRS. (You know, “Fancy Expensive Electronic Medical Records System.”) It was all kinds of busy, with wait times of many hours. And as I slogged along, relearning FEEMRS after a few weeks away, I realized that it takes about one hour of looking at that screen for me to become exhausted. It’s just too busy. Every bit of the screen seems filled with some data, some field, some time-stamp. Oddly, I struggle to find the triage note, the home medications, the history. I struggle to find whatever orders I have entered and to see if they have been completed. I throw my ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 5, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Edwin Leap, MD Tags: Tech Health IT Source Type: blogs

2015 Front Line of Healthcare Report – CME and Conferences are a More Frequently Utilized Source of Information
Bain & Company, Inc. has published their Front Line of Healthcare Report 2015, a report that focuses on the shifting United States healthcare landscape by the numbers. Bain & Company took a natural survey of 632 physicians across specialties and 100 hospital procurement administrators in the United States in an attempt to update their 2011 Physician Attitudes Survey. To highlight the idea that the dynamics of change vary substantially across different regions of the country, Bain oversampled two regions with distinct market characteristics (Massachusetts and Mississippi/Alabama). Bain found that in states like Ma...
Source: Policy and Medicine - April 4, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs

Medicare Payment Reform: Hospitals Cannot Succeed Without Medicare Data
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is adopting new payment policies that will rapidly shift current reimbursement models that reward volume to alternative models designed to reward value and care coordination. These reforms also expand existing value-based purchasing programs that pay incentives or impose penalties based on performance in selected quality and efficiency measures. One alternative model, bundled payments, will reimburse hospitals for services provided to patients during an episode of care. An episode starts with a hospitalization and includes services for a period of 30, 60, or 90 days post...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 1, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Vinita Bahl Tags: Costs and Spending Health Policy Lab Hospitals Medicare Payment Policy Quality Bundled Payment for Care Improvement demo Bundled Payments Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement episode based payment Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Source Type: blogs