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Interoperability – A Challenge in 2015 10 years ago, interoperability didn’t mean much to healthcare organizations. Things have certainly changed. The three-year goal of the ONC’s 10-year roadmap is for providers and patients to be able to send, receive, find, and use... Read More

Meaningful Use – A Challenge in 2015 For those who have already implemented an EHR, Meaningful Use Stage 2 focuses new efforts on patient access to personal health data and emphasizes the exchange of health information between patient and providers. Stage 2 also imposes... Read More

Changes to healthcare as we know it are coming. They are coming sooner rather than later. The big question: Are you ready? The Nightly Business Report had a spot on ICD-10 coding changes coming up in October. They interviewed some physicians and office staff and very simply... Read More

This mistake with healthcare technology is made over and over despite so much evidence that it never works; buying it, finding space to physically put it, and then continuing to operate exactly the same. Healthcare technology is more than a physical computer, tablet or lap top.... Read More

Staggering numbers…. ”The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services project an additional 14 million Medicare beneficiaries, plus another 9.6 million individuals on Medicaid, by 2023. That’s on top of the 48 million already enrolled in Medicare and the 70 million enrolled in... Read More

For years we in healthcare have heard via the QIT (Quality Improvement Team) processes (that incidentally go back to the 80’s) that we need to measure what we do and how we do it. Measure, analyze, report and change; the mantra of QIT.  So it strikes me as somewhat strange that... Read More

By now, almost the end of the first quarter 2015, the preparation, allocation of dollars, gap analysis, system scrutiny and training of coders should be completed and you should be well into ICD-10 training of providers. You should have developed a contingency plan if thin... Read More

So you have just accepted a position at a practice as a billing manager. Where do you begin? The very first question you should be ask is “where are we from an AR (accounts receivable) perspective?” In order to make that determination, you must answer a variety of... Read More

BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) is defined as a way of “helping payers streamline operations, reduce costs, speed their time to market with new service plans, and use data analytics to reduce risk.” Due to a surge in enrollment thanks to the Affordable Care Act, as well... Read More

There are so many questions about healthcare technology. Information analysts, information scientists and database administrators, these are the jobs that healthcare is most eager to fill. Innovation, cloud-based solutions, and “bring your own everything” are the watch words of... Read More