Healthcare Finance Staff
More Americans are hoping that the Supreme Court will spike the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) today than did prior to the oral arguments -- but only by a couple percentage points.
A panel of experts gathered at the 2nd International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy in Washington, DC on Wednesday all seemed to agree that the stakes are high when it comes to electronic medical records and privacy.
To date, 32 organizations across the country are participating in the Pioneer ACO initiative, hoping to inspire others in their regions to follow suit. As the benefits of adopting this model become clear, more organizations are looking to explore the possibility of becoming an ACO.
Let's forget about ICD-10 coding for a moment. Let's talk about how medical practices can make more money.
A picture is worth a thousand words, the old saying goes. Today, HealthInfoNet, Maine's statewide health information exchange, is launching a pilot that will put both images and words at the fingertips of healthcare providers -- the better to make the right decisions for their patients.
Many healthcare providers are nervous about using the cloud, but that may change soon. Stanton Jones, an analyst in emerging technology at Information Services Group (ISG), says when companies use the cloud, they speed up.
The state's political leaders appear to be striving for a status quo wherein a large number of citizens lack health insurance or the means to obtain it. Will that spark a shift among voters during the upcoming November elections?
Healthcare providers need health information exchange to be fully automated and easy to do in order to scale up sharing of patient data to improve care, according to Farzad Mostashari, MD, the national coordinator for health information tcchnology.
Healthcare organizations have been very focused over the last two to four years on rolling out their electronic health record strategy, which has been driven largely by the meaningful use incentives. Today, however, Integrated delivery networks (IDNs) are starting to recognize that their EHRs alone will not solve every problem -- especially care coordination issues between IDNs.
More than half of the people who have health insurance coverage through an individual insurance plan are enrolled in plans that won't meet minimum coverage requirements for plans sold in 2014 as defined by the Affordable Care Act, according to research supported by The Commonwealth Fund.