Quality Care Issues and Costs No one can argue that improving quality care is a worthy goal. Interpretation of how it is best done gets bogged down especially when it comes to figuring out what’s required, obtaining and interpreting the information, translating it...
You hear much about the ideals of improving quality patient care. As the process moves forward, it struggles with the issues of standard rules, the interpretation, and the delivery and results of the data, not to mention the high costs for providers to try to make it...
The Privacy Rule in HIPAA allows health care providers to communicate electronically by email with patients, provided reasonable safeguards are used to protect private information. See 45 C.F.R. § 164.530(c). The safeguards may get somewhat complicated requiring...
EMRs (Electronic Medical Records) problems have been defined by NCHI and reported to Congress. The nightmare of initiating and implementing the EMR has some clearly identifiable problems. The National Coordinator for Health Information (NCHI) has formulated a report...
Medical records have been kept on patient care since people first developed the ability to write. At the beginning of the 20th century, stenographers entered the scene who took the doctor’s dictation in shorthand. This method was used until the invention of...
Value-based reimbursement will largely be the new law of the land as the Senate stepped up to pass the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) repeal. Thankfully, the repeal helped physicians avoid a 21% Medicare payment cut as well as moved the value-based...
