Wondering What You Missed at HIMSS16?...
With more than 41,000 attendees and 1,200 exhibitors in attendance, there was no shortage of activity at the annual Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference and...
With more than 41,000 attendees and 1,200 exhibitors in attendance, there was no shortage of activity at the annual Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference and...
In an era of electronic health records (EHR), patient-generated data has become a buzz phrase in healthcare. This data—often collected via medical devices such as pacemakers, glucose monitors, blood...
Your EHR investment should produce results for your small practice—better patient care, increased provider productivity, fewer process redundancies, lower operating costs, and improved revenue cycle...
Major workflow disruptions are every practice manager's greatest nightmare and a poorly planned EMR implementation offers many opportunities to fail....
Just because your practice has survived the EHR go-live doesn’t mean that you’re in the clear. To fully reap the benefits, practices must continually evaluate their...
The ICD-10 transition has gone surprisingly well for many physician practices nationwide. However, the industry is bracing for what could...
You can’t stop with the stethoscope. Physicians now need to embrace all kinds of technologies to improve care – and...
We all know the tragic story of Thomas Duncan, the Texas patient who died of Ebola in October 2014. According to the Washington Post, the...
After what seemed like endless delays and difficulties with the launch of the new ICD-10 implementation, it's still on schedule to launch on...
Many practices have been busy attesting to Meaningful Use (MU) objectives, many of which pertain to HIPAA privacy and security. Privacy- and security-related MU...
The transition to ICD-10 continues to challenge many physicians even despite the fact that CPT coding will remain unchanged. The most effective way to approach the implementation is...
In 2012 a five-physician practice in Arizona was fined $100,000 for not complying with HIPAA regulations. That’s a frightening amount of money for a small group, but the government is making it...