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The Care Continuum Alliance released a new toolkit for accountable care organizations (ACOs) to support care providers manage core ACO wellness and health management strategies. The toolkit is referred to as “Achieving Accountable Care: Essential Population Health Management Tools for ACOs”. ACOs need to acquire new skills, tools and perspective on their endeavors, and . . . → Read More: Care Continuum Alliance Releases ACO Tool Kit The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a final rule to set up the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program that will tie acute care Medicare payments to quality of care beginning in fiscal year 2013. This program is consistent with the Partnership for Patients program to reduce hospital-acquired conditions by 40 percent by the . . . → Read More: Value-Based Purchasing Rules Issued Healthcare IT News recently reported that it asked its readers if they think the iPad is ready for healthcare, and found that for many, the time for the iPad has arrived. The integration of technology tools in the clinical workflow remains a paramount issue for practitioners. According to their report, nearly half of respondents . . . → Read More: Ipad Fad in Health Care No More The American Medical Association and Medical Group Management Association published an online directory that profiles practice management information systems that are compliant with the HIPAA 5010 transaction standards. The Practice Management System Software Directory complements the AMA/MGMA Selecting a Practice Management System toolkit, and provides an impressive set of data essential to vendor evaluation . . . → Read More: 5010-Compliant Vendor List Health Level Seven International – the Standards development organization – has released an implementation guide for the transfer between health plans a personal health record. The exchanged documents are known as Plan to Plan Personal Health Record or P2PPHR documents, and can be transferred individually or in batches if an employer changes health plans. . . . → Read More: Plan-to-Plan Personal Health Record HDM reported on Kalorama Information report on the growth of EHRs. It estimates the U.S. electronic health records market at nearly $15.8 billion and predicts it will rise to $31.9 billion in 2015. It reported that he revenue figures cover software systems, consulting, installation fees and training, but not hardware. The article further indicated . . . → Read More: Report on EHR Growth from Kalorama Information So how can providers effectively use clinical data to increase patient engagement? First you have to capture and decipher the clinical information in order to make it manageable and then meaningful. Meaningful information is key to help patients take care of themselves between visits to their physicians – this is much more important than . . . → Read More: Clinical Informatics Increasing Patient Engagement The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services intends to assess the health care industry’s disposition for transitioning to the HIPAA 5010 transaction sets and ICD-10 code sets. Through a web-based survey inviting insurers, providers and vendors this summer. It will look into the status of their transition process by looking at milestone benchmarks set . . . → Read More: Are You Ready for 5010/ICD-10? The FDA issued on April 18 a rule governing the use of medical device data systems, implementing guidelines for IT companies that develop medical devices for health care providers. This rule, promulgated by the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, impacts hardware manufacturers introducing new mobile medical devices for use by health care . . . → Read More: New FDA Rule Regarding Medical Device Data Systems Takes Effect Joseph Goedert of Health Data Management reported recently that an analysis of 43,600 patient accounts in a leading hospital shows that when a family’s spending on health care exceeds 3.5 percent of income, a tipping point is reached on the ability to pay. While this finding helped the hospital manage individual struggling with settling . . . → Read More: Kink in Patient Payments |
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