By Cheri Bankston – Under the Conditions of Participation for Discharge Planning, hospitals must determine the appropriate level of care and provide a list of home health agencies or SNFs to patients as options of care.
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By David Harlow – We are awash in digital health data. And we are awash in multiple regulatory schemas designed to protect privacy, security and appropriate access to all this data. Some data is “traditional” health care data governed by the familiar patchwork of federal and state statutes and regulations (rhymes with “HIPAA”).
By Jeff Jones – Encouraging physicians to switch to EHRs has been a long term effort from CMS ever since the January 2009 passage of the HITECH act.
By Tatsiana Levdikova – Nowadays medical devices supporting and implementing the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) standard are made use of in almost every medical institution (e.g. in hospitals), and one hospital may have up to ten such devices or even more.
By Jordan Rau – The federal government released its first overall hospital quality rating recently, slapping average or below average scores on many of the nation’s best-known hospitals while awarding top scores to dozens of unheralded ones. CMS rated 3,617 hospitals on a one- to five-star scale, angering the hospital industry.
The Federal Communications Commission’s Connect2Health Task Force launched the Mapping Broadband Health in America tool, a web-based mapping tool that will enable and inform more efficient, data-driven decision making at the intersection of broadband and health.
CMS issued a final rule to update fiscal year 2017 Medicare payment policies and rates under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System. The final rule, which would apply to approximately 3,330 acute care hospitals and approximately 430 LTCHs, would affect discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2016.
By Terry Edwards – At Becker’s Hospital Review Annual CIO/HIT + Revenue Cycle Summit I discussed the elements needed to truly secure clinical communications with some of the best minds in the healthcare world. With the recent high profile news stories on ransomware attacks in hospitals and health systems, security and the ability to secure clinical information is top of mind for many.
By Mordy Pelleg – A few weeks ago, I offered up 10 best practices for successful revenue cycle management. Any practice that implements these regular behaviors will be on a more stable financial foundation. Things are changing rapidly in healthcare, which is news to exactly no one.