Patient Safety Through Nurse Workplace Transformation
New RWJF Policy Brief Examines Progress Since 2004 IOM Study Princeton, NJ — A decade ago, a report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) offered…
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Why Ergonomics and EHRs Make for Happier Practitioners and Patients
Ergonomics and Patientricity By Steve Reinecke, CLS/MT, CPHIMS, AVP Ergotron Healthcare Twitter: @ergosteve Ergotron Healthcare: @ErgoHIT Today, healthcare organizations are being challenged to provide quality care while…
Counterpoint: ICD-10 is an Opportunity
The First Opportunity for Physicians to Take Back Control of Healthcare in 30 Years By Charles Pope, Managing Director of Health Information Technologies Twitter: @CharlesHPope…
Senate Passes Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, Pushes ICD-10 Compliance Date Back
Delay of ICD-10 Now in the Hands of the President It’s been a whirlwind few days for the healthcare industry. Last Thursday the House of…
New HHS Security Risk Assessment Tool
HHS Releases Tool to Help Providers with HIPAA Compliance The following is communication from HHS and ONC. A new security risk assessment (SRA) tool to…
Health IT Issues that Deserve a Second Read – March
Top Guest Posts of the Month One of the ways that HITECH Answers is different from other media sites is the sense of community. The…
Lean Management Healthcare Principles
Where is the Lean? By Sean Carey Twitter: @esseeconsulting While information about lean healthcare is rapidly expanding, from books to conferences to blogs, long-term care predictably…
Health IT Business News – Thursday, March 27, 2014
Today’s Business News CareCloud announced the availability of its new billing rules platform, CareCloud CollectiveIQ. This advanced collection of automated billing rules — built in part…
Applying the Principles of Krav Maga to Your ICD-10 Preparations
Preparing for ICD-10 By Ric Sinclair, Head of Product, ZirMed Twitter: @Zirmed ICD-10 is often described in scary terms—a potential disaster, a perfect storm, an angry…