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HDN reported on the results of a TriZetto Group survey A stunning 86 out of 100 responding health care payers in the fifth of a series of periodic surveys on ICD-10 readiness worry that providers won’t be ready by the October 2013 compliance date to submit claims using ICD-10 codes. Only 9 percent . . . → Read More: ICD-10 Provider Progress Concern to Payers The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology ONC has awarded $116 million in funding for an impressive number of Health IT Workforce Development Program initiatives. The ONC underscored the need for the country moving toward a more technologically advanced health care system, providers are going to need highly skilled health IT . . . → Read More: Health I.T. Competency Exams While ACOs hold the promise of patient and quality-centric healthcare, and heralds a bold new vision for the delivery of health services, another study sets a chilling impact on its lofty ambitions. This time a study commissioned by the American Hospital Association estimates start-up costs for establishing an accountable care organization to be many . . . → Read More: New Study on the Real Cost of Launching an ACO We were happy to participate in a gathering of community health leaders in Chicago on April 27. Todd Park, the chief technology officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, stole the show with a strong message about the role federal government is looking to play (or not play) in accelerating the deployment . . . → Read More: Liberating Data by the Department of Health and Human Services  Comments are closed  Healthcare Reform, Interoperability, Meaningful Use  Department of Health and Human Services The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a rule on May 5 in connection with proposes changes to the hospital inpatient payment system and long-term care prospective payment system for fiscal 2012. They are entertaining the day in the very near future where hospitals will no longer have to abstract from patient charts . . . → Read More: EHR as Source for Future Quality Reporting We are grateful to Gary Baldwin of HDM for reminding us that the core underpinning to the meaningful use strategy is predicated on “structured data,” (The End of Document Management? – May 10, 2011). The structuring standard of medical data brought about by the federal mandates has many advantages the least of which is . . . → Read More: Structured Document Management Evolution Joseph Goedert of HDM reported that two software vendors have released products that support the Direct Project, a federally funded initiative that produced free, downloadable secure e-mail software for exchanging clinical information. Medicity, with its health information technology platform, and UNIVAL Inc. has built a new modular technology platform, enables users to exchange data . . . → Read More: Vendors Adopt Direct Project Oracle Transcription’s partner Bayscribe announced this week that several key relationships and enhancements to the BayScribe Clinical Documentation System (CDS)including the ability to offer coded data via C32 output through its partnership with Intelligent Medical Objects® (IMO®). IMO is the leader in clinical interface terminology and will manage all terminology term changes and updates . . . → Read More: BayScribe Announces Availability of Structured, Coded Data with CDA output Analytics appears to be the new mantra in health care. We all know that everything starts the point of encounter with the proper recording of clinicians assessment, and its accurate transcription and collation with other data sets to produce a picture of a condition or a prognosis. Now with new tools, technologies and approaches . . . → Read More: Analytics Taking Center Stage Healthcare IT security regulations extend to HCO’s business partners, and that encompasses a wide variety of players including hosting firms, accountants, and medical transcription. They are all subject to HIPAA security regulations and other data privacy regulations simply by having HCOs as customers or partners. Failure to comply to the regulations, or worse, suffering . . . → Read More: Healthcare Security Regulations for Email |
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