By Terry Edwards – I’ve attended the show for the past ten years, and I’ve seen trends evolve over time – some fading quickly, others becoming a constant theme throughout the years – all representing the ever-advancing healthcare landscape. This year, as I walked the HIMSS show floor and had conversations with other executives, physicians and vendors, I noticed the following:
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By Matt Fisher – It has been a frequent message that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been providing numerous HIPAA lessons over the past few years through settlement announcements.
By Sharon Arnold PhD – Much has been written about the importance of finding alternatives to the volume-increasing incentives of traditional fee for service payments and one solution or change will not create an instant results. However, there is a continuum between pure fee for service and pure capitation.
By Chad Terhune – The head of Aetna Inc., the nation’s third-largest health insurer, said he supports insurance exchanges, even though he questioned their sustainability earlier this month and lost money in the marketplaces last year.
By Bennett Lauber – This year at HIMSS there was no shortage of talk about the “lack of usability” in EHRs. In the final HIMSS16 show daily there were four articles that addressed some aspect of EHR usability.
By Keith Lage – Is your practice battling declining reimbursement? Declining reimbursement has always been a complex challenge for medical practices but today’s changing healthcare landscape has even more providers worried about the future of their revenue cycle.
By Dawn Crump – Like the heavy rains, flooding and snowstorms experienced early this year, a deluge of audits is putting hospitals and health systems in a potentially precarious situation. New audits and activity is already underway. It is imperative that healthcare providers adequately educate themselves and plan ahead for the plethora of audits ahead—old and new.
By William Hyman – In May 2015 I commented here on the then pending legislation in the House to limit the FDA with respect to the regulation of Clinical Decision Support systems (CDS). At that time there was related draft legislation in the Senate. The House subsequently passed a version of its CURES Act in July 2015 which included the Health Software section that limited FDA’s oversight.
By Karen B. DeSalvo & Steven Posnack – As a health care consumer, imagine if you were able to choose a software application to create a secure snapshot of your health information, like pictures that extend over the course of your lifetime.