By Jim Johnson – With all the recent turbulence in healthcare surrounding Meaningful Use, ICD-10 and now the transition to the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, HIPAA has flown under the radar, in a sense, for some practices.
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By Brent D. Magers – With the advent of Electronic Health Records (EHR) in the late 2000s came rampant resistance. Meaningful Use requirements forced healthcare organizations to begin implementing an EHR but many were unhappy about it.
CMS extends the submission deadline for 2016 Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) data submission for the EHR reporting mechanism of the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) program.
By Susan Biddle – In the all-out war for data, the healthcare industry is getting hit the hardest. Experian’s fourth annual 2017 Data Breach Industry Forecast states that healthcare organizations will be the most targeted sector for attack, with new and sophisticated attacks emerging.
By Rod Baird – This article is our annual overview of CMS approved Individual Quality Measures (QM) for use by medical groups practicing in Nursing Facilities, Homecare, Assisted Living, and related places of service.
By William A. Hyman – We are all familiar by now with the phenomenon of clinical users being unhappy with their EMRs for a variety of reasons. These reasons often include that there is a mismatch between the EMRs workflow and the existing clinical workflow.
By Brian Levy MD – There is a lot of discussion about “clean” data today in healthcare. Recent movements with health IT, interoperability and data exchange hold great promise in fueling the high-level analytics.
By Sam Wehbe – The amount of health data is staggering and becoming more so on a daily basis. Today, 30 percent of all data storage worldwide is health data, according to a 2012 study by the Ponemon Institute.
The thought leaders in our community are good about sharing their thoughts on the issues of today. Here are the top read and shared guest posts of January.