Secure patient ID card.(Products and Services)
The Secure Info ID (SIID) card is a secure personal and medical
information storage solution that works with any computer equipped with
a re-writeable drive. This enables medical personnel to read . . .
Revenue management solution.(Products and Services)
Practice Partner Complete is a physicians service that combines an
integrated electronic health record (EHR) as well as practice management
software with billing and accounts receivable management . . .
Document scanners.(Products and Services)
The Kodak i1400 series scanners provide high quality images of up
to 600 dpi optical resolution, easy-to-use operation and print speeds of
up to 75 pages per minute. The i1410 and i1420 models are . . .
Beginning at the end: maximizing technology implementations in
healthcare through value management.(Practice Management)
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Let's say your 500-bed hospital is generating $500 million in
revenue. If your organization is like others, margins are hovering
between 2 and 5 percent for a revenue . . .
Best care, shorter stays: a thriving hospital streamlines its
care management department with a Web-based ASP solution and benef
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Effective case management is the cornerstone of promoting quality
care and achieving cost-effective outcomes at every hospital. The
collaborative nature of case management, . . .
Pursuing practice excellence: a new PM system improves practice
performance with time-saving functionality and robust appointmen
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Sooner or later, medical groups that still rely on aging practice
management (PM) systems that run on older technology platforms have to
face up to the necessity of . . .
Take me to the pilot: a pilot project from Mississippi Medicaid
gives providers handheld access to beneficiary medication inform
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While the promise of health information technology is to improve
and simplify our lives, it is usually only through its
transparency-of-use coupled with its ability to work . . .
Superior scheduling: a Midwestern provider adopts automated
scheduling to enhance efficiency while ensuring appropriate staffing
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Like many healthcare organizations, Hays Medical Center found
itself battling the one-two punch of an ever-tightening labor market,
compounded by a relentless escalation in . . .
Scrubbing reimbursement rates clean: a private practice Radiology
group integrates a claims editing application with its practic
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Like many medical practices, St. Paul Radiology, of St. Paul,
Minn., found managing the complexities and pressures of securing
reimbursement a considerable challenge. . . .
Reclaiming lost revenue: an FQHC-qualified community clinic faces
down the complexities of the claims editing and submission
pro
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Neighborhood Healthcare, a large group of community clinics in
California's San Diego and Riverside counties, serves a population
that is largely below the poverty line. We . . .
Reconcilable differences: a Washington healthcare enterprise
works collaboratively to create a comprehensive medication
reconcil
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Medication reconciliation is a key component to patient safety and
wellbeing. Just two years after The Joint Commission issued its National
Patient Safety Goals and . . .
e-Prescribing coalition.(Health IT and Government)
Nearly 50 organizations that make up the e-Prescribing Controlled
Substances Coalition sent an organizational letter in the form of a
petition to President Bush calling for revision of . . .
Study examines state HIE progress.(Data
Exchange/Interoperability)(Clinical report)
Preliminary findings from a study currently underway by the
Foundation of Research and Education (FORE) suggest statewide health
information exchanges (HIE) governed as public/private entities are . . .
New e-prescribing standards for Medicare Part D.(Healthcare IT
Standards)
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), under
direction from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),
proposed the adoption of final uniform standards for an . . .
Medicare e-prescribing standards.(Healthcare IT
Standards)
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), under
direction from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),
proposed the adoption of final uniform standards for an . . .
Telehealth could save billions.(Telehealth, Telemedicine)
The non-profit research Center for Information Technology
Leadership (CITL) recently published findings that show
provider-to-provider telehealth technologies can save $4.28 billion
annually. The . . .
$400 million in FCC grants for rural telehealth.(Healthcare and
Government)
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently announced
grant recipients and amounts for the Rural Health Care Pilot Program,
designed to encourage telehealth and telemedicine service . . .
AMA seeks health IT tax credit.(Briefly)
The American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates is
pushing for a tax credit to assist physicians to purchase and use health
IT, such as EMR and e-prescribing. The full, refundable tax . . .
Deadly cold mutation.(Briefly)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that the
mutated strain of the common cold virus that killed 10 people since last
May, known as Adl 4, is genetically identical in all four . . .
The cost of overregulation.(From the Editor)
Can America have its cake and eat it too? The Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)--good legislation originally
intended to enable patients to retain their healthcare when . . .
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