Health 2.0 Takes Over Disruptive Women
By Joy Burwell. On Monday, June 7th Health 2.0 took over Washington DC and yesterday the excitement continued with a Disruptive Women in Health Care breakfast. The breakfast would not have been possible without the generous sponsorship of Manatt and the support of The Hill. A huge thank you to this morning’s engaging panelists: Fran McMahon, Publisher of The Hill; Indu Subaiya, Co-Founder Health 2.0; Julie Murchinson, Manatt Health Solutions; Alexandra Drane, Founder and President, Eliza; Marlene Beggelman, Founder, Enhanced Medical Decisions and Linda Von Schweber, Co-Founder Surveyor Health. Robin Strongin, Creator of ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - September 10, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
A Caregiver ’ s Perspective on Patient Engagement
The following is a guest blog post by Michael Archuleta, Founder and CEO of ArcSYS, where he shares his experience as a caregiver for his father trying to navigate the healthcare system.
My dad is 99 years old. Having moved him to Utah 6 months ago into a retirement home, our first step was to get an appointment with a new primary care physician. I brought along a list of his medications and watched the nurse tediously look up and enter each into the EHR. Dad and the doctor got along great on that first visit. She assured us that she could help manage his medications. There was nothing realistically that could be done to r...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 20, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: Health Care Healthcare Healthcare Interoperability HealthCare IT Patient Advocacy Patients ArcSys Michael Archuleta Patient Stories UpDox Source Type: blogs
#WHISTLEBLOWER tonight on CBS at 9 pm: Brendan Delaney and Electronic Medical Records
I received this today. This type of scenario is not what the pioneers intended, and is an example of how some in the healthcare information technology industry may have less of the altruism and responsibility that clinicians feel towards the medical mission. Settlement information is here:https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/eclinicalworks-pay-155-million-settle-suit-alleging-it-faked-meaningful-use-certification---------------------------------------------------hashtag#WHISTLEBLOWER tonight on CBS at 9 pm: Brendan Delaney and Electronic Medical Records Tune in tonight to hear Brendan Delaney ’s Medical Records Whistleb...
Source: Health Care Renewal - August 17, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: Brendan Delaney CBS eClinicalWorks fraud healthcare IT fraud Martha Spanninger Source Type: blogs
Cats & Dogs: Can We Find Unity on Health Care IT Change?
By MATTHEW HOLT
Today we have a humming economy and insane politics. In early 2009 we were in economic meltdown and were about one week into the sanest, soberist Administration and even Congress over many recent decades. In February 2009 They passed a stimulus bill that had a huge impact on the health IT market (and still does). At that time there was much debate on THCB about what the future of health IT policy should look like and how the stimulus “Meaningful Use” money should be spent. My January 2009 summary of that whole debate introduced the notion of “Cats and Dogs in health IT”. They’...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 15, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Matthew Holt 2008 Election EHR Health 2.0 Policy Policy/Politics RHIOs Startups Source Type: blogs
Healthcare CIOs Focused On Patient Experience And Innovation
Not long ago, 22 healthcare CIOs had a sit-down to discuss their CEOs’ top IT-related priorities. At the meeting, which took place during the 2018 Scottsdale Institute Annual Conference, the participants found that they were largely on the same page, according to researchers that followed the conversation.
Impact Advisors, which co-sponsored the research, found that improving patient experiences was priority number one. More than 80% of CIOs said patient engagement and better patient experiences were critical, and that deploying digital health strategies could get the job done.
The technologies they cited included patien...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 2, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Anne Zieger Tags: Clinical Decision Support Digital Health EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR EMR Implementation EMR Technology Fitness Trackers Health Startup Incubators Healthcare Healthcare AI Healthcare CIO HealthCare I Source Type: blogs
Pronouns matter: How we can do better in LGBTQ patient care
In the wake of Pride Month, I have been reflecting on how our health care system impacts the lives of individuals with identities across the gender spectrum. Sometimes, when sending a prescription to a pharmacy for any given patient, we will get a phone call that the date of birth on file with insurance does not match the date of birth we have on file. Typically, this is a clerical error that is easy to fix. What is more jarring is when a patient we know identifies as female is on file with their insurance company as being male. That one letter on a chart — M instead of F — is a stark reminder of the many daily challen...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 13, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/carlene-macmillan" rel="tag" > Carlene MacMillan, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
SPM ’s comments on important proposed CMS interoperability rules
By E-PATIENT DAVE DEBRONKART
This is the first of two posts from the Society of Participatory Medicine about an important policy issue regarding portability of our medical records. The second part will be published tomorrow and is written by Michael Millenson, who did the lion’s share of this work, as noted below.
Our Society’s Advocacy and Policy chair Vera Rulon @VRulon has submitted our comments on the proposed rules that have been discussed at great length on social media.
These regulations are a big deal for participatory medicine – they’re the successor to the Meaningful Use rules that have governed patient ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 9, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: OP-ED Medical Records Michael Millenson Policy Issues Trends & Principles Source Type: blogs
How e-Prescribing Features Improve Your Practice Life
The following is a guest blog post by Dr. Tom Giannulli, CMIO at Kareo.
e-Prescribing, the process of electronically fulfilling a medication prescription directly from your practice, is far from new. In fact, this service has been around long enough that the majority of patients have come to expect the convenience that accompanies it.
Most private practices are using some type of medical software that aids in the e-Prescribing process. Some may have incorporated said software because they felt obligated, but others have realized that an integrated software solution can do more than help meet the requirements for the mean...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 9, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR ePrescribing HealthCare IT Meaningful Use Medical Economics CMIO Dr. Tom Giannulli EHR Efficiency Kareo Value Based Care Source Type: blogs
Barriers to Patient-Centered Research Aired at Harvard Symposium
While writing about health IT, I routinely find myself at legal conferences. Regulatory issues about patient privacy and safety arise everywhere health IT tries to have an impact, so people promoting change must keep in touch with policy-makers and lawyers in the health care area.
Thus I went this past Friday to Harvard for a one-day symposium, “Putting Patients at the Center of Research: Opportunities and Challenges for Ethical and Regulatory Oversight,” sponsored by Harvard’s Petrie-Flom Center.
*Audience at Patient-Centered conference at Harvard
Involving patients in patient care is a surprisingly rec...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 2, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Healthcare Patient Advocacy Patient Engagement PCOR PCORI Research Source Type: blogs
5 Steps to Ensure Revenue Integrity After Implementing a New EHR
The following is a guest blog post by Lisa Eramo, a regular contributor to Kareo’s Go Practice Blog.
In the rush to implement EHRs for Meaningful Use incentives, many practices lost sight of what matters most for continued success—revenue integrity, says Joette Derricks, healthcare compliance and revenue integrity consultant in Baltimore, MD. Revenue integrity—the idea that practices must take proactive steps to capture and retain revenue—isn’t a novel concept. However, it’s becoming increasingly important for physician practices operating in a regulatory-driven environment, she adds.
Revenue integrity is also ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 18, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: Certified EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR HealthCare IT Meaningful Use Medical Economics Revenue Cycle Management CPT Training EHR Billing EHR Templates ICD-10 Training Joette Derricks Kareo Lisa Eram Source Type: blogs
How this physician handles burnout
“Put me out of my misery!” I’ve pleaded to anyone within earshot in the throes of a grueling day, a rant from one feeling burnt out. There are days I want to pull my hair out, even the ones that aren’t gray. One night I caught myself grunting, “I hate my life,” while heading out the door at 12 a.m., after an already exhausting day in the OR. No sane person should ever say that. But the world of medicine nowadays is far from sane. After returning home for two hours of sleep, I drag myself to the office with a full patient-load, which is not bad in itself if it weren’t for that unsettling, acronymic world of EH...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 19, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/randall-s-fong" rel="tag" > Randall S. Fong, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Empowering Patients through Decentralized Information Governance
By ADRIAN GROPPER, MD
Seema Verma is right, US health care will be transformed if we empower patients and physicians through access to information. Don Rucker is right to focus attention on APIs to enable the transformation. A year and a half into the new administration and the massively bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is having to navigate between the shoals of highly unpopular Meaningful Use regulations and the apparent need for regulation to undo the damage of market consolidation that they caused. From my perspective, it looks like HHS is doing a good job.
Prediction...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 8, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Why Physician Practices Need a MIPS Expert on Staff
The following is a guest blog post by Marina Verdara, Sr. Training Specialist for CMS Incentive Programs, Kareo.
Healthcare providers go to school to learn how to care for patients, and that’s what they do best. However, billing processes, performance-based payment adjustments, and payment incentives are typically not included in this education. Being responsible for today’s regulatory complexities and workload may not have been what providers envisioned for their career. And it’s taking a toll. Nearly half of physician practices spend more than $40,000 per full-time physician per year on complying with Medicare paym...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 16, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Blogger Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR Healthcare HealthCare IT MACRA Kareo Kareo MACRA MGMA MGMA Survey MIPS MIPS Exper Source Type: blogs
Isn't It Ironic, Don't You think?
I Hate EMR'sThere. I said it. The bane of my existence, as a primary care physician, are the idiotic electronic medical records I have been forced to use. Lets see...I have mastered Epic, Point Click Care, All scripts, Practice Fusion, etc., etc. I can't even begin to remember all the different systems. The one point that is glaringly clear, they have added pain, frustration, and increasing amounts of time. But none, I said none, have actually improved patient care. I have spent thousands of dollars and countless hours using electronic medical records. They have altered my work flow,...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - April 11, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs
Isn't It Ironic, Don't You think?
I Hate EMR ' sThere. I said it. The bane of my existence, as a primary care physician, are the idiotic electronic medical records I have been forced to use. Lets see...I have mastered Epic, Point Click Care, All scripts, Practice Fusion, etc., etc. I can ' t even begin to remember all the different systems. The one point that is glaringly clear, they have added pain, frustration, and increasing amounts of time. But none, I said none, have actually improved patient care. I have spent thousands of dollars and countless hours using electronic medical records. They have altered my work f...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - April 11, 2018 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs
