athenahealth Will Pay $18.25 Million To Settle Kickback Allegations
EHR developer athenahealth has agreed to pay $18.25 million to resolve allegations that it violated the federal False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to generates sales of its athenaClinicals product. In its complaint, the US Justice Department claimed that athenahealth violated the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute by running questionable marketing programs. One of […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 29, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: Administration EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT athenaClinicals athenahealth Community Health Systems DoJ Fines DOJ Settlements EHR Kickbacks False Claims Act meaningful use Practice Fusion US Department of Justice Source Type: blogs
Asparia Chatbot Integration with Epic Yields a Seamless Experience for Patients and Epic Users
If I were to map out the phases of EMR, it would look like this: EMR Adoption. Rapid EMR adoption and implementation fueled by the generous government incentive program (Meaningful Use) EMR Consolidation. Providers either decided to switch to a different EMR or were forced to change due to the consolidation or shuttering of their […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 22, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System ACPNY Advantage Care Physicians in New York Asparia EMR extension EMR Integration Epic Epic API Epic App Orchard Source Type: blogs
Meaningful U ’s
By HANS DUVEFELT
Meaningful Use was a vision for EMRs that in many ways turned out to be a joke. Consider my list of Meaningful U’s for medical providers instead.
When electronic medical records became mandatory, Federal monies were showered over the companies that make them by way of inexperienced, ill-prepared practices rushing to pick their system before the looming deadline for the subsidies.
The Fed tried to impose some minimum standards for what EMRs should be able to do and for what practices needed to use them for.
The collection of requirements was called Meaningful Use, and by many of us nicknamed ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 27, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Primary Care Hans Duvefelt Meaningful Use Source Type: blogs
American Primary Care and My Soviet Era Class Trip: Sensing the Inevitable Collapse of a Top Down Bureaucracy
By HANS DUVEFELT, MD
Swedish Healthcare seemed competent but a bit uninspired and rigid to me but my medical school class trip to the Soviet Union showed me a healthcare system and a culture I could never have fully imagined in a country that had the brain power and resources to have already landed space probes on Mars and Venus by the time my classmates and I arrived in Moscow in the cold winter of 1977.
The first time we sat down for breakfast at two big tables in the restaurant of the big Россия hotel near the Red Square, our two male waiters asked if we wanted coffee or tea and people started stat...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 26, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Primary Care American healthcare Hans Duvefelt Source Type: blogs
Practice Fusion to Pay $145 Million In Fines To Resolve Kickback Investigations
Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based EHR vendor with a controversy-rich history, has agreed to pay $145 million to settle allegations that it engaged in a kickback scheme designed to increase opioid prescriptions and issues with their meaningful use EHR certification. Practice Fusion is now owned by Allscripts, which acquired it in 2018. This had been […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 29, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations 100Plus AllScripts Clinical Decision Support DoJ Fines Drummond Group EHR Certification False Claims iBeat meaningful use opioid crisis Opioi Source Type: blogs
When sponsored CDS is a crime …
Today, The Department of Justice issued an announcement that was “the first ever criminal action against an EHR vendor.”
Criminal action
The core of the criminal action was something inevitable: the tension between better health and better profit. Here’s what I saw … all of which caused me to be not-so-surprised today when the news broke.
In 2008 I was the CMIO at Allscripts. Much of my work was focused on how our customers could use our products to improve the health of our patients. We implemented clinical practice guidelines in the software as a way to help clinical teams and patients mak...
Source: Docnotes - January 28, 2020 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jacob Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Advice for Aspiring CMIOs
Recently, my colleague Steve Peters, chief medical information officer, Mayo Clinic, and I discussed our life experiences as CMIOs. We talked about how the role has evolved along with changing technology and the transition to nearly universal adoption of electronic health records by large health centers. I asked Steve to share his insights on ' what makes a great CMIO in 2020 ' and captured his thoughts for you." I have thought about the ' post-EHR ' CMIO as most large centers and hospitals have moved on from the initial implementation. Here are a few thoughts:1. Serves as the ...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - January 22, 2020 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Enter the Informaticist
The Meaningful Use program to incentivize adoption of EHRs was announced right as I was wrapping up residency, and planning to embark on subspecialty training in Clinical Informatics. My first real articles for EPMonthly were about Meaningful Use.Ten years later seemed like a good opportunity for me to reflect on the program ' s success (almost all of us are, finally, using electronic records for patient care) and failures (the systems are more limited and frustrating than they ought to be). The two-part article is availablehere andhere. (Source: Blogborygmi)
Source: Blogborygmi - January 12, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: nickgenes Source Type: blogs
9 Healthcare Companies Who Changed the 2010s
By ANDY MYCHKOVSKY
In order to celebrate the next decade (although the internet is confused whether its actually the end of the decade…), we’re taking a step back and listing our picks for the 9 most influential healthcare companies of the 2010s. If your company is left off, there’s always next decade… But honestly, we tried our best to compile a unique listing that spanned the gamut of redefining healthcare for a variety of good and bad reasons. Bon appétit!
1. Epic Systems Corporation
The center of the U.S. electronic medical record (EMR) universe resides in Verona, Wisconsin. Population of 13,166. The ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 7, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Start-Ups Andy Mychkovsky Healthcare Pizza Innovation Startups Source Type: blogs
Health IT Leaders choose MU, Consumerism and Cloud as Top Stories of Past Decade
Over the past decade we have moved from a world where more than half of healthcare processes were paper-based to one that is mostly electronic. We also saw the rise of patient portals, a movement towards value-based care, the implementation of a new billing code system and an explosion of health data. It’s hard to […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 26, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Regulations ACA Bill Kotraba BJ Boyle Chris Gervais Health IT Leadership Health IT Year-in-Review Luke Bonney meaningful use Rasu Shrestha Source Type: blogs
10 Years Since HITECH: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The following is a guest article by John D’Amore, President and Chief Strategy Officer, Diameter Health. Almost every article on the 10 years since the passage of the HITECH Act mentions the over $35 billion spent to incentivize the implementation of electronic health records. Most go on to conclude either “We failed!” because there are […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 19, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Diameter Health EHR Regulation HITECH John D'Amore meaningful use ONC Source Type: blogs
Data Center Before and After Shots from Mt San Rafael Hospital
I was really impressed recently by a couple pictures my friend, Michael Archuleta, CIO at Mt San Rafael Hospital shared with me. Michael shared these pictures along with the news that his hospital had achieved HIMSS Analytics Stage 6, Meaningful Use Stage 3, and received the 2019 Most Wired Hospital award that is now being […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 25, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Dev Ops desktop virtualization Healthcare Data Center Healthcare Virtualization Hospital CIO Michael Archuleta Mt. San Rafael Hospital Server Virtualization Source Type: blogs
We need to find the Steve Jobs of health care tech
A featured article titled“Death by A Thousand Clicks” addressed some of the serious problems and challenges we still face in the“digitization” of health care. As an early adopter of EHR since 2003 and a self-avowed“techie,” I can vouch for the fact that many of the government initiatives in HIT, like“meaningful use,” […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 19, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/nigel-a-spier" rel="tag" > Nigel A. Spier, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Tech Health IT Hospital-Based Medicine Practice Management Source Type: blogs
MIPS Quality Scores Are Now Public
It seems like an eternity that we’ve been writing about government regulations like Meaningful Use, HITECH, MIPS, MACRA, and a bunch of other abbreviations that many would like to forget, but can’t because they’re still a part of many organizations’ daily lives. In all the time we’ve been writing about it, we’ve often echoed our […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 20, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Chirpy Bird Consulting EHR Advocate HealthGrades Jim Tate Joy Rios MACRA MIPS MIPS Quality Scores MIPS Scores MIPS Tool Source Type: blogs
MU Study Suggests That A Health IT Divide May Be Emerging Among Physicians
In retrospect, we probably should have predicted that once Meaningful Use was put into place, some physicians would be better situated than others to take advantage of the program. Now, research has emerged to suggest that not only did MU create HIT winners and losers, it might also have helped to foster long-term differences between […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 29, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: Ambulatory Clinical EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Role Health IT Digital Divide MACRA meaningful use Medicare MIPS Physician MU Attestation SK&A Source Type: blogs
