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Contributing Writer · June 8, 2015
Smaller Practices need to focus on ICD-10 training and implementation
The upcoming transition to the new set of ICD-10 billing codes threatens to disrupt the finances of healthcare providers across the United States. However, hospital networks and health systems may have more financial wiggle room compared to offices that employ only a handful of physicians.... Continue
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Sophie Scheidlinger · May 14, 2015
Make your voice heard: Comment on the new CMS proposed ruling for Meaningful Use public health reporting
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that proposes changes to the current Meaningful Use Program. Overall, CMS has streamlined and simplified attestation requirements and reduced the overall number of objectives for advanced use of EHRs.... Continue
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Contributing Writer · May 1, 2015
Who owns the medical record and what are its purposes?
Traditionally, a patient’s medical information has been segmented into charts that exist in various places – the offices of the doctors involved, hospitals, etc. Each doctor’s chart is a medico-legal record of the advice given to the patient by the doctor, resides in the doctor’s... Continue
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Practice Fusion · October 18, 2014
Thinking outside the pillbox: Enabling patients to stick to their medication plan
To the tune of 125,000 deaths and $300 million, medication non-adherence is a growing concern to clinicians and the healthcare system. In fact nearly two thirds of re-admissions are due to medication non-adherence. However, the use of interventions to improve adherence are rare in routine... Continue
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Practice Fusion · October 6, 2014
Building the right foundation for clinically integrated networks from the ground up
Builders and home-buyers in quake-prone regions of California prefer neighborhoods erected atop bedrock to those that rest on landfill, which are prone to crumble and slide when an earthquake hits. Portions of new buildings in San Francisco’s Mission Bay district rest on steel pilings driven... Continue