Meaningful Use’ Compliant EHR Technology Implementation – Specialists’ Perspective

“While specialist practitioners, such as Radiologists, Psychiatrists, Chiropractors, Urologists, etc. can claim exemptions and exclusion of certain objectives set out in the Meaningful Use Clause by CMS, they are not treated preferentially as far as documenting clinical processes using approved and compliant EHR software is concerned: their responsibility for reporting clinical data using Certified EHR […]

Driving Physicians’ Practices towards Accelerated EMR Implementation

“Notwithstanding the incentive bait for ‘Meaningful Use’, and penalty threat for ‘Non-compliance’, there has an encouraging statistics about migration from manual to digital form of healthcare practice management. But, considering the quantum of target to be reached to meet Macro EMR/EHR objectives, we are miles away from the originally conceived vision of idealizing healthcare management […]

Paid-Sick-Days Concept as a Preventive Option for Federal Healthcare Expenditure

“Coming at a time when Federal Government itself is promulgating radical healthcare reforms to tackle growing medical expenditure on public healthcare, and promote efficient and quality medical care to its ever growing insured population, this paid-sick-days concept promises to complement the macro healthcare reforms formulated by the Federal Health Department.” Strange it might seem, yet […]

Fall in Doctor Office Visits by Patients Under 65

US physicians recently have been experiencing a gradual decrease in visits by privately insured patients younger than 65. IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, a health care research firm tracked an overall 4% drop in patient visits in 2011 compared with 2010, and Thomson Reuters Healthcare showed September physician office visits were down 8% compared with […]

CMS Encouraging Physicians for Health Care Reform Innovation: Grants Offered

At last someone is looking to cut healthcare cost innovatively- The Health Care Innovation Challenge program, announced on 14th November, last year is the most recent federal effort by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to support health care innovations. The program is aimed at awarding grants to physicians and other health professionals, […]

Ohio tops in EHR usage, with the other states catching up

According to Ohio Health Information Partnership, around 6,750 doctors in Ohio, the maximum count of physicians compared to any other state, have committed to electronic health records (EHR), leading the nation in usage of EHR’s. Greater Cincinnati has nearly 985 physicians who have committed to or are already using the records systems. Ohio is currently […]

Increasing trend in Hospital Employment: Impact Physician Billing

Health care reform, widely anticipated federal Medicare reimbursement cuts and a variety of changes in the physician workforce, are fueling more and more physicians to move under the hospital’s umbrella. Hospitals employees are expected to increase in the next ten years considerably with 85% of physicians likely to be hospital employees. A survey by the […]

Doctors Contemplate Opting Out Due to Continued Medicare Hassles

Physician participating in the Medicare program are scheduled to face a 27.4% cut in their payments, effective 1st January, 2012, and with providers anyway complaining about current reimbursement rates, the cut is likely to considerably impact both patients as well as doctors adversely. As a result of the cut the Medicare physician conversion factor will […]

Physicians to Make the Most of 5010 Enforcement Delay

Physicians were mainly relieved with the announcement made by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of E-health Standards and Services (OESS) on 17th November, to delay enforcement of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA 5010 transaction standards with a 90-day discretion period for all HIPAA covered entities. CMS stated that their decision is […]

Tackling the challenges faced by Physicians while treating Geriatrics

The Challenges in Geriatric Medicine The projected population of geriatrics is about 19.7 percent of the total population by the year 2030, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In light of such projections, it becomes clear that physicians and health care providers are definitely going to face growing number of elderly patients in their […]

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