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0 ICD-10: Triggering New Generation of Healthcare Reforms
Feb 6, 2012. Health Information Technology, Implementation, Insight, News, Spotlight, Today.The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision (ICD-10), is a unique coding for diseases, signs and symptoms, external causes of diseases, as maintained by the World Health Organization. By translating disease diagnoses and other health-related problems into an alphanumeric code, the ICD permits systematic recording, analysis, and interpretation of mortality and morbidity data collected in different countries. The code set allows more than 14,400 different codes that allow the tracking of new diagnoses as well.
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0 Cost of Care
Feb 6, 2012. Health Information Technology, Implementation, Insight, News, Spotlight.A direct correlation exists between information technology and the cost of health care. The utilization of interfaces between different venues has allowed increases in efficiencies for billing practices spearheaded by the government with HIPAA. This interaction has streamlined processes that have direct impact on the money the government spends, permitting a reduction in the cost of care through federally funded programs like Medicare and adopted as a standard practice by most private insurance entities.
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0 meridianMobile for iPhone: The Market-leading Urology EHR in the Palm of Your Hand
Feb 3, 2012. Health Information Technology, Implementation, Insight, News, Spotlight, Today.Contribution by meridianEMR
meridianEMR®, the market-leader in EHR for Urology, announced today the launch of a native iPhone® app to complement the meridianEMR system. meridianMobile® for iPhone combines the rich functionality of the meridianEMR system with the mobility and fluid interactivity of the iPhone. It gives Urologists secure access to their real-time EHR data – right in the palm of their hands.
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0 Mobile Health
Feb 3, 2012. Health Information Technology, Implementation, Insight, News, Opinion, Spotlight, Today.Mobile health or m-health is referred to the use of latest mobile technology to support and improve medical services. Mobile devices such as PDAs and mobile phones are used for collecting patient information, monitoring of health services, delivering of health care information to doctors, patients, and research analysts and providing patient care about the basis of the data collected. Mobile health is a part of e-health, which is the utilization of information and communication technology in the form of computers, satellites, mobile phones, etc. in health care. Mobile health and e-health are linked to each other as a project of mobile health, which is used to collect data on any illness, requires the use of e-health system to store and manage the data.
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0 Deadline for 2011 Stimulus Reporting Period Looms
Feb 2, 2012. News.Eligible Professionals (EPs) who qualified for Meaningful Use in 2011 have until February 29th, 2012 to register and attest. The last possible reporting period for 2011 Medicare program ended on December 31st, 2011. EPs who completed their 90-day period in 2011 should work with their Regional Extension Center (REC) representative to register and attest online as soon as possible.
Incidentally, February 29th is also the last day to submit any unbilled Medicare Part B claims from 2011. Please bare in mind that Medicare Stimulus payments are calculated based on your annual allowable charges submitted to Medicare Part B. EPs must bill a minimum of $24,000 to qualify for the maximum $18,000 payoff for year one.
The HITECH Stimulus program reimburses EPs up to $44,000 under the Medicare or $64,000 under the Medicaid program for implementing certified EHR technology. Medicare requires a 90-day attestation period where each provider meets the meaningful use objectives. Medicaid only requires EPs to “adopt, implement, or upgrade” to certified EHR technology.
If your practice is still shopping for EHR, consider making a purchase decision during the first quarter of 2012. That will give you plenty of time to install and train on the system before beginning your 90-day attestation period. The last reporting period for 2012 begins October 1st, so be sure to start early.
XLEMR is hosting a one-time web presentation about how to achieve stimulus funding under the Medicare program. The presentation is on Tuesday, February 7th at 5:00 PM EST. It is free to all clinical and administrative staff. You can register online at http://www.xlemr.com/webinar.html.
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0 Medical Devices Integration: How it Will Impact Medical Practices?
Feb 2, 2012. Health Information Technology, Implementation, Insight, News, Spotlight, Today.According to a World Health Organization report published in June 2011, developed countries follow better practices in the health care domain because they are more likely to integrate information systems to provide better care to patients. Medical Devices Integration is one such process, which plans to bridge the barrier between medical device data and hospital enterprise networks. It helps hospitals automate the collection of patient device data for transmission to the EMR and eliminate manual data entry, resulting in better health care facilities.
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0 ICD-10 Transition: Training and Education Are Key
Feb 1, 2012. Health Information Technology, Implementation, Insight, News, Spotlight, Today.“Has been” is the perfect definition for the ICD-9 patient health definitions and descriptions used by U.S. practitioners for years. Now ICD-10 codes are used in many countries, with the U.S. lagging behind in the transition. Training and Education may be the answer to meeting the Oct. 1, 2013 compliance deadline.
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0 Cloud Computing – What You Need to Know
Jan 31, 2012. Health Information Technology, Implementation, Insight, News, Spotlight, Today.Cloud computing was a revolutionary new concept which has changed the way in which we use technology to do things for us. From healthcare to business, cloud computing presents a paradigm shift in the computer processing and data storage construct, offering unrivaled flexibility, convenience and computer power. It is no doubt one of the most significant evolutions of recent years, and is already having a big impact on IT world at large.
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0 Relevance of Business Analytics in Healthcare Industry
Jan 30, 2012. Health Information Technology, Implementation, Insight, News, Spotlight, Today.Today the world is all about computer centric organization of data. This phenomenon is reflected in almost all fields of human interest as data left unorganized or unstructured could result in dramatic losses especially for businesses whose financial and other important decisions need to be taken only after comprehensive analysis of generated business data. The healthcare industry too is now flourishing on the backdrop of implementation of effective Business Analytics and Intelligence to their workflow. Significant input and output coordination can be achieved only if proper usage needs and patterns are monitored and Business Analytics software packages enable businesses like healthcare to do just that.
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0 How Should the Medical Billing Industry Prepare For the ICD-10 Transition?
Jan 27, 2012. Health Information Technology, Implementation, Insight, News, Spotlight, Today.Health Insurance Accountability and Portability Act of 1966 (HIPAA) legislation has included a mandatory requirement for the use of ICD-10 with a compliance date of October 1, 2012 in the US. What this means is that over the next few years, all hospitals, doctors and health care providers would have to change the codes they use to identify diagnoses from the previously used ICD-9 to the new, improved ICD-10. A total of 138 countries have already adopted ICD-10 for mortality data purposes and 99 have adopted it for morbidity.
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