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5 health IT insiders offer their takes on EHR usability |
EHR usability is suddenly front and center, now that usability testing is part of the EHR certification criteria for meaningful use Stage 2. We talked with diverse industry insiders for their take on what is critical to user-centric design and what the usability factors might mean to healthcare and to the healthcare IT market. Here is a sampling of some of the topics on their minds.
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| Government EHR incentives near $7B |
Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record payments are approaching $7 billion since the program's beginning, with $6.9 billion paid out to 143,800 physicians and hospitals in total program estimates through the end of August. READ MORE |
Mostashari: No cap on EHR incentive payouts |
There are no set appropriations for how much the federal government can spend on rewarding providers who adopt and use electronic health records under the Medicare and Medicaid meaningful use EHR incentive program, according to National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, MD.
"Whoever qualifies, gets paid; there's no hard cap," said Mostashari, who gave a keynote at the Annual Policy Summit for the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) on Wednesday.
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| Even with the new deadline, 'time is running out' on ICD-10 | |
Now that the Department of Health and Human Services has decided on the new ICD-10 deadline, one reality not to be overlooked is that October 1, 2014 is a mere two years away.
That doesn't leave a lot of time for healthcare organizations to meet the mandate, particularly those who have not yet even started the conversion.
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Practices concerned over ICD-10 switchover, survey says |
Medical practices nationwide have expressed worry regarding the impact of an ICD-10 switchover, according to a recent survey finding 96 percent of respondents concerned about the transition to the updated coding system.
The Nuesoft Technologies sanctioned survey, "Attitudes Toward the Transition to ICD-10 and ANSI-5010," also showed that 73 percent of respondents anticipate ICD-10 significantly affecting their practice, whether it be financially or operationally. READ MORE |
Your Medical Records May Not Be Private: ABC News Investigation | |
You walk into the doctor's office. They lead you to a private room and shut the door. The nurse enters writes on a chart (or maybe an iPad) and shuts the door. A doctor enters and shuts the door.
It all screams of privacy -- privacy you expect.
But what if you were to find out those medical records containing your private history, family history and medication history weren't so private after all?
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| Top 5: Data breach winners and losers by state |
In an epoch of Web hackers, procedural slackers, unauthorized users and viewers, PC pinchers and server swindlers, it's a hard knock life for patient privacy.
Nearly 20 million patient health records have been compromised since the Aug. 2009 Breach Notification Rule, which requires that HIPAA-covered groups give notification following a data breach involving 500 or more individuals. And breach numbers haven't shown signs of waning any time soon.
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