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Hospitals are selling —but will physicians buy? If your organization is considering rolling out ambulatory electronic health record systems to physicians on your organization's medical staff, you may want to do some homework
An increasing number of IT vendors are offering hospitals and integrated delivery systems (IDSs) the ability to roll out an ambulatory EHR not only...
Healthcare Financial Management, 09/01/09 by Margret Amatayakul · More from publication -
Is your organization ready for stimulus? The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provides $17.2 billion to reward Medicare and Medicaid providers that use certified healthcare IT in a meaningful way, starting Oct. 1, 2011 . That's only about two and a
Is your organization ready for stimulus? The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) provides $17.2 billion to reward Medicare and Medicaid...
Healthcare Financial Management, 05/01/09 by Margret Amatayakul · More from publication -
EHR versus EMR: what's in a name?
When it comes to the acronyms for electronic health records (EHR) and electronic medical records (EMR), what's in a name? Maybe nothing--so why the...
Healthcare Financial Management, 03/01/09 by Margret Amatayakul · More from publication -
Is a patient portal on your IT list? If your organization is providing patients with access to health information and enabling them to perform various health-related tasks online—not just offering educational content or the ability to pay a bill—
Various studies of IT adoption in hospitals have shown that these levels of online service are almost nonexistent in most hospitals, and not high...
Healthcare Financial Management, 02/01/09 by Margret Amatayakul · More from publication -
EHRs are not IT projects: decisions with respect to advanced clinical information systems that ultimately will form an electronic health record system are being made almost exclusively by some IT departments or the vendor, rather than more appropriately
EHRs are not IT projects: decisions with respect to advanced clinical information systems that ultimately will form an electronic health record...
Healthcare Financial Management, 11/01/08 by Margret Amatayakul · More from publication -
HIEs: survival of the fittest: an estimated 130 health information exchange organizations exist today—and many of these fledgling HIEs are at risk
Some HIE organizations have already gone out of business, while new ones continue to form. Although they go by different names--local health...
Healthcare Financial Management, 08/01/08 by Margret Amatayakul · More from publication -
Think a privacy breach couldn't happen at your facility? Think again
"Britney Spears Medical Record Breach Nothing New, Says Privacy Expert" "Britney Spears Medical Record Breach Nothing New, Says Privacy Expert"...
Healthcare Financial Management, 05/01/08 by Margret Amatayakul · More from publication -
Good data stewardship makes good cents: quality measurement and reporting are becoming the ticket to incentives, malpractice premium credits, telecommunications discounts, and many other forms of support for adopting electronic health records and other c
Good data stewardship makes good cents: quality measurement and reporting are becoming the ticket to incentives, malpractice premium credits,...
Healthcare Financial Management, 02/01/08 by Margret Amatayakul · More from publication -
Do you plan not to achieve your EHR ROI? In conducting an ROI analysis for an electronic health record , conventional wisdom suggests estimating costs liberally and benefits conservatively. This may be good advice from a theoretical perspective, but in do
The Medical Group Management Association suggests that, on average, physician offices are 30 percent over budget in their EHR expenditures. No...
Healthcare Financial Management, 11/01/07 by Margret Amatayakul · More from publication -
Are you ready for HIPAA now? The privacy and security of patient medical records is receiving a lot of attention lately from providers, patients, and regulatory agencies
Consider the following examples: Consider the following examples: * On Jan. 24, 2007, the first Health Insurance Portability and Accountability...
Healthcare Financial Management, 05/01/07 by Margret Amatayakul · More from publication
