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Does IT promote Efficiency in Healthcare Facilities? | ComplyMD's Blog
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Does IT promote Efficiency in Healthcare Facilities? 22 June 2009 at 7:46 am. In the right facility. With the right people. Is part one of a two part series from Modern Healthcare Magazine’s. May 26 article “Providers Turn to IT for Efficiency, but is it Working? Though they start off discussing IT in laboratories, I believe we can take their words and apply it to any area/department of a healthcare facility. Automated processes, along with point-of-care electronic systems. That is a very valid point....
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Are You Ready for CMS’s multi-faceted Reimbursement Reduction Movement? Back in May. I love the first line of this article:. Take heed, hospital administrators Uncle Sam is watching. Oh how true. Most everyone involved in healthcare knows that Uncle Sam is watching. And we also know that good ole CMS. Is getting pickier and pickier about what they are going to pay for these days. CMS has decided it will not make payments for hospital-acquired conditions. Overall, how it works is that if a hospital su...
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Round 1’s Definition of “Meaningful Use” for EHRs | ComplyMD's Blog
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Round 1’s Definition of Meaningful Use for EHRs. 6 July 2009 at 8:34 am. The governmental push {Stimulus} towards EHR, the definition of meaningful use came to surface; rather the lack of definition arose. EHR companies and healthcare facilities alike have been waiting to hear from the HIT Policy Committee on What exactly defines ‘meaningful use’ of an EHR? On June 16, the committee released its initial recommendations for the definition. Reported this First Look at ‘Meaningful Use’. Provide electronic s...
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Hospitals and the Recession | ComplyMD's Blog
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Hospitals and the Recession. 14 July 2009 at 7:06 am. Everyone has been impacted by the recession, in one way or another. Whether it be job loss, budget cuts, decrease in sales, etc. every industry across the board has been impacted and every consumer has been affected. According to this article. Health care is the only private-sector economic activity that has added jobs continuously since the recession began. Does that mean that healthcare has not been negatively impacted by the recession? We need to d...
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Every Day is Time Out Day | ComplyMD's Blog
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Every Day is Time Out Day. 21 July 2009 at 8:30 am. On June 17, 2009 the AORN. Association of periOperative Registered Nurses) honored National Time Out Day. National Time Out Day reminds every member of the surgical team how critical it is to take time out for patient safety. Confirm correct patient, correct procedure, and correct surgical site before every invasive procedure. This is why in 2004, Joint Commission. Key information about the patient. And procedure to help prevent errors from occurring.
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National Health IT Week 2009 – Just Around the Corner | ComplyMD's Blog
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National Health IT Week 2009 Just Around the Corner. 27 July 2009 at 8:31 am. Lots of chatter is coming from Washington, DC about Healthcare Reform. Supposedly 2009 is the Year of Healthcare Transformation. Healthcare reform has now taken a prominent role in Washington, DC, with both the House and Senate working in concert with the Obama Administration to pass effective legislation. National Health IT Week 2009 will be in DC, taking place September 21st 25. Like all the healthcare IT buzz from DC is the ...
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Money, Money, Money: The Stimulus | ComplyMD's Blog
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Money, Money, Money: The Stimulus. 29 June 2009 at 8:59 am. Since President Barack Obama signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the words stimulus and EHR go together like bread and butter in the world of Healthcare IT. This article from our friends at Modern Healthcare Magazine’s. February 23, 2009 edition titled IT’s the Money. Here’s a graph depicting the bonus structure for early EHR adopters:. Health I.T. Carrots. With these Health IT Carrots, comes Health IT Sticks.
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Are You Ready for CMS’s multi-faceted Reimbursement Reduction Movement? (Part 1) | ComplyMD's Blog
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Are You Ready for CMS’s multi-faceted Reimbursement Reduction Movement? 5 August 2009 at 12:35 pm. Back in May. I love the first line of this article:. Take heed, hospital administrators Uncle Sam is watching. Oh how true. Most everyone involved in healthcare knows that Uncle Sam is watching. And we also know that good ole CMS. Is getting pickier and pickier about what they are going to pay for these days. CMS has decided it will not make payments for hospital-acquired conditions. Overall, how it wor...
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Physician Documentation and Coding: Are Doctors Prepared? From the American Journal of Surgery. Entitled Surgical residents’ knowledge of documentation and coding for professional services: an opportunity for a focused educational offering. Hints at the fact that most physicians are not properly prepared for coding and documentation in the real world of medicine. Why aren’t physicians trained on how to best document what they did on patients? Isn’t this how they get paid? The convenience sample: 60 surgi...
