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CSC: Payors should pay attention to meaningful use - June 18, 2010
Orlando Florida --
While it initially appeared as if there was less at stake in the HITECH Act provision for payors, as the details of healthcare reform have emerged, the links between meaningful use, health IT, nd payor industry business practice reforms are becoming more explicit, according to a report from Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC).
“It’s important for health plans and payors to understand what the meaningful use challenge means to providers and hospitals, if they are to be able to identify the business risks and opportunities that are associated with it,” stated the Falls Church, Va.-based CSC.
According to the report, payors and health plans that ignore the challenges that meaningful use and EHR implementation create for hospitals and providers risk missing significant opportunities.
The report authors stressed five meaningful use considerations that health plans and payors be aware of:
Health IT adoption and its meaningful use will improve the performance of existing payor sector cost and quality programs: Because health plans rely on repositories populated by claims data, this creates data lags and latency issues preventing timely identification and interventions for members at risk for disease. “Widespread adoption of integrated health IT processes by hospitals and providers will certainly make that information easier for providers to obtain,” the report observed.
Implementing health IT and meeting meaningful use criteria will strain the resources of provider organizations and may threaten the stability of plan and payor provider networks: “Most provider organizations will struggle financially and operationally to execute these projects and will have little organizational energy or resources for other initiatives,” stated the authors, noting that collaboration will be difficult in this time among payment and networks arrangements.
There’s no reason to think that Medicare Advantage plans will remain exempt from some level of participation in HITECH and meaningful use: Although the final requirements haven’t been fully written into law, it’s "not hard to imagine" that health IT implementation and meaningful use by Medicare Advantage plan provider networks will become part of the definition of “quality” that triggers bonus payments.
Where Medicare leads private sector health coverage purchasers follow: Because employer purchaser coalitions are becoming strong supporters of the HITECH Act provisions and deadlines, the report stated that those are “strong signals from important customers that health plans and payors would be foolish to ignore.”
Plans and payors have a big stake in making sure that their provider networks are successful in implementing and using health IT: Ensuring provider success with EHR implementation and meeting meaningful use criteria will allow plans capitalize on improvements that health IT and meaningful will bring to existing cost and quality control programs.
“At minimum, plans should use this as an opportunity to reformulate and realign existing pay-for-performance incentives with health IT implementation and meaningful use deadlines,” concluded CSC. “Minimizing differences between plan-sponsored incentive programs and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid-sponsored programs will also serve to simplify compliance and achievement, for provider organizations.”
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Examining Dragon Naturally Speaking Software - June 18, 2010
Orlando Florida --
Dragon Naturally Speaking Computer Software allows you to talk rather than type. There are various computer software programs out there that grant you to speak into a microphone rather than type the words. These types of computer software will assist you out when you don t type fast. As a matter of fact, you may have up to 160 words per minute typed with Dragon Naturally Speaking computer software. As a matter of fact computer software out there for speaking rather than typing will really cause you to speak slower than you would normally talk, which makes the typing go even slower than normal. As a matter of fact, to find software that is compatible with your computer and allows you to type/ speak up to 160 words per minute is outstanding.
Dragon Naturally Speaking computer software will likewise grant you three times faster speed than really typing. Most persons may type around 60 words per minute. To increment that speed is paramount to becoming a great deal of projects done on time. You will likewise find that there s a 99% accuracy rate for words being typed. This means the one percent of the info is not going to translate accurately or be spelled in the right way. To increment primary to always proofread your work when you have finished the document.
You will find that this computer software is not hard to employ and install. Like most software programs, it is having a disk in which the installation starts without delay. You will not need to be trained on the use of the program so that makes it easy for just in regards to anyone. It will likewise assist you type those long projects up and work well for time management. You will likewise find that there s assist for non- ordinary edit controls, which means you may gain control over editing. You will be competent to have a more suitable accuracy rate for what you say in a variety of applications.
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Dragon Naturally Speaking computer software has various different versions from the preferred, medical, professional, and legal software. These programs differ in that they ll understand the vocabulary you need to construct the documents rather than having incompatible communicating. You will find that there are resources for this computer software and updates to assist ameliorate the strategy. You don t even need to use to program for work you may use it for personal and home as well. The software will work with most email, instant messengers, and the web to assist you get everything accomplished that you need to do.
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A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, pediatrics, dermatology, electronic documention, CCI edits, CPT codes, ICD 9 Codes, ICD 10 codes, comploiance, electronic medical records, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
Q&A: Dr. David Blumenthal On Getting Doctors On Board With EHRs - June 18, 2010
Orlando Florida --
The U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services this month is finalizing the much-anticipated requirements for what constitutes the "meaningful use" of electronic health records. Those requirements will let healthcare providers know what they must do to qualify for the more than $20 billion in incentive funds set aside as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. It's expected that many healthcare providers who haven't deployed EHRs yet, will do so after the meaningful use requirements are released.
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Techweb's David Berlind gets a hands-on demonstration of Google's newly re-written spreadsheet app, with improved performance and increased productivity, including real-time collaboration.InformationWeek editor at large Marianne Kolbasuk McGee recently spoke to the nation's health IT coordinator, Dr. David Blumenthal, about what's at stake as healthcare providers, especially smaller ones, start deploying and using EHRs.
InformationWeek: Why is it important to hospitals for doctor practices to get on board with health IT and meaningful use?
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Blumenthal: In future stages of meaningful use our goal is to make sure that information follows patients. Organizations that participate in the care of patients must support the gathering of information in ways that meet the full needs of patients regardless of where they get their care. So if you're a hospital in a city and a patient gets specialty care in a network of physicians or at a hospital other than yours, I expect the criteria for meaningful use to take into account the ability of hospitals to move information to those other specialty providers whether or not they're affiliated.
InformationWeek: Will rewards or penalties be tied to the ability to exchange medical information?
Blumenthal: From a policy standpoint, an aspirational standpoint, the Department of Health and Human Services—and I think the Congress—is very clear on where we want to go, and that's to have information follow patients. That's to have information that’s generated in any part of the health system to be available to every other part of the health system that takes care of that single patient. We don’t want information to be stopped at the border of a health system, a commercial boundary, or a geographic or political boundary. Ultimately we don't even want it to stop at national boundaries. We want this to be about patients, not about the technical or business concerns of providers.
InformationWeek: What are the biggest risks to doctors who don't get on board besides the financial penalties that will eventually kick in?
Blumenthal: First of all, any doctor who wants to sell his or her practice or who wants to recruit a partner to give new life to the practice or to expand it will have a lot of trouble recruiting a young physician—someone under the age of 45—if they don't have an electronic health record or don't plan to acquire one. This new generation of physicians isn't going to tolerate a paper world.
InformationWeek: So the excuse that you're a doctor who'll be retiring in a few years isn't a valid reason not to implement EHRs?
Blumenthal: If you're a 50- to 60-year-old physician, you're in the prime of your professional career and your patient panel is expanding. You probably want to bring on a new partner—maybe two or three—so you'll be recruiting. There's a physician shortage, so what's going to make your practice competitive?
InformationWeek: Will the move to health IT and meaningful use lead to consolidation of the healthcare marketplace?
Blumenthal: That's one possibility. And there has been a tendency among physicians to go into employed situations over the last decade. But I want to make it clear that it's not our purpose or goal to undermine solo or small group practices. The acquisition of electronic health records can make those practices more sustainable over time and enable them to maintain their independence if they wish. It may be a little harder for them to get over the hump of acquisition than if they were part of a group or large organization, but they can share data with a larger organization through an electronic health record and maintain their independence using electronic means better than they could in the paper world.
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TechWeb TVs Executive Producer, Fritz Nelson, speaks with Mark Cuban, Co-Founder of HDNet, about the effects and costs of broadcasting video content and programming over the Internet. Is the Internet built to scale for video?InformationWeek: The HITECH act was signed into law about a year before the nation's healthcare reform legislation finally passed. Anything you now think is missing from the HITECH legislation that needs to be addressed?
Blumenthal: We will certainly learn in which ways electronic health information systems can better support health reform over time, but I think now we have a huge, very innovative mandate. If we can just do what the Congress asked us to do under HITECH, we'll have gone a long way toward making health reform more successful. I'm just hoping we can fulfill the expectations of Congress and the administration within the current HITECH authorities rather than looking forward to new pastures to graze in.
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InformationWeek: In terms of mass adoption of health IT, how will it help the so-called Accountable Care Organizations? (ACOs are organizations where a doctors and hospitals manage all of a patient's care and share in the savings from providing better care.)
Blumenthal: The Accountable Care Organizations are organizations intended to hold themselves accountable to performance standards and can perform at a higher level. How do you hold yourself accountable? Through measuring what you do, looking at what you do, understanding what you do. How are you going to measure what you do without timely, accurate, comprehensive information? Where are you going to get that information in a paper world? Paper chart reviews are just not adequate. They're not accurate enough. They're not robust enough. They're not timely enough, and they're too expensive. So I think the ACO mission and agenda almost presumes the availability of electronic health information.
InformationWeek: So, if you're not using EHRS and other high-tech tools, you really can't be part of an ACO?
Blumenthal: It's possible to do with extraordinary effort. There are some organizations in the paper world that perform better than others. And with great effort and considerable cost, it's possible to document that. But the documentation has never been complete. It almost always has relied on claims data and was never adequate to really maximize the potential of those organizations and give healthcare providers with real-time feedback on their performance—the moment-by-moment kind of feedback you can get with an electronic health environment.
InformationWeek: Patients and consumers get uneasy sometimes when you talk about digitizing their health information. They worry about privacy and security. Are there plans to address this?
Blumenthal: The HITECH act enacted a whole series of provisions to tighten the privacy and security laws under HIPAA. And the Office of Civil Rights has already issued an interim final rule on breach notification that requires the notification of patients or other individuals whose data is breached. There's also a series of much harsher penalties for breaches due to negligence. There are a series of restrictions on the use of patient information for the marketing of products, for fundraising, or for other uses they haven't given permission for. These will begin to give the public some insight into what we're doing.
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InformationWeek: Some large medical organizations say a big concern about the proposed meaningful use rules is the "all-or-nothing" approach to rewards, which could hurt healthcare providers who attempt to meet all two-dozen or so requirements but come short on the last few. What do you think about a more scaling type of reward system?
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Blumenthal: We've heard that concern and are looking closely at it. There were quite a number of concerns, not only about the number of requirements, but also about the threshold levels. So I suspect if some of the thresholds weren't as demanding, then maybe the concern about number of requirements might not have been so great. There are a lot of things to balance, and we're working on them.
InformationWeek: As you've traveled around the country and talked to healthcare providers, what are the top hurdles they're most worried about in deploying these systems?
Blumenthal: The concerns are the cost of acquiring the records, the technical challenge of putting them into place, and possible lost of productivity at first. They also raise questions about whether these systems will be compatible with their practice, their style, and their ability to do their work. That's mostly what's on people's minds.
InformationWeek: Now that the grants have been awarded for these programs, how will Beacon Communities and Regional Extension Centers help providers?
Blumenthal: Beacon Communities and Regional Extension Centers haven't been on the ground long enough to become household words in most communities. So many physicians aren't widely aware of the services they're providing. I hope that will change quickly. Some Regional Extension Centers are functioning, and some are still getting organized.
InformationWeek: In terms of getting the word out to providers about any of these efforts, is there anything you'd like to add?
Blumenthal: We’re optimistic, we're moving forward, and we’re deploying a whole series of new programs. We still have 16 months before providers have to demonstrate meaningful use. Under the notice of proposed rulemaking, it's not until Oct. 2011 when folks have to start documenting their meaningful use. We still have substantial time to provide assistance to people who want to get started.
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A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, pediatrics, dermatology, electronic documention, CCI edits, CPT codes, ICD 9 Codes, ICD 10 codes, comploiance, electronic medical records, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
HIPAA violations - June 18, 2010
Orlando Florida --
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 | Health Insurance Coverage Data | dedoesnt
The private U.S. health care system, government was the source of the many injustices that since its foundation has been regulated. HIPAA This changed in 1996 with the adoption of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act () 1996.
HIPPA allows access to all aspects of health care, renewal, and freedom for physicians to choose which. HIPPA also increases the accessibility of group insurance plans and promotes the exchange of > Data electronically. There are also certificates that help reduce the misuse of confidential medical information to reduce fraud. Other sections of the law to allow patient access and copies of medical data will be received and noted before they exchanged information. The employees are now able to move freely from one job to another without their long-term medical care or no health insurance.
> Insurance Provider, HIPPA disagreed and expressed their regret for the protection of privacy, noting that suppliers require financial burdens that are observed measures put in place. The law originally created tens of thousands of complaints of privacy violations.
While the U.S. continues to seek ways to maintain the system of health care affordable, without completely changing the current private, for profit insurance companies to find ways toReduce health care costs are a starting point apparent. Reducing costs of administrative procedures and record keeping are the most likely target. With the push of HIPPA regulations to electronic records to help medical institutions and insurance companies could cut costs and improve accepts.
HIPAA violations
Failure to comply with the conditions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability canResult in costly fines and penalties. These are the extent of damage and the resulting damage was caused.
HIPAA Violation
Minimal pain and individual annual
Maximum penalty Individual and annual
The individual did not commit a breach of
$ 100 / $ 25,000 for repeated violations
$ 50,000 per violation, / $ 1,500,000
Damage caused by intentional misconduct and negligence
$ 1,000 / $ 100,000 (repeatAccidents)
$ 50,000 / $ 1,500,000
Damage caused by negligence targeted, but were resolved within the prescribed period
$ 10,000 / $ 250,000 (in case of repeated infringements)
$ 50,000 / $ 1,500,000
HIPAA violation is not corrected and selective neglect
$ 50 000 / $ 1,500,000
$ 50,000 / USD 1.5 million
HIPAA was implemented by the office of civil rights it was established more than 9,000 violations. The most common of these was the issue of private health insuranceInformation without the knowledge or consent of patients.
insurance organizations are found to be in violation of HIPPA if they exclude months for pre-existing conditions for more than 12 They are also guilty of a violation, if the insured pays a premium above other condition for coverage because of their medical history, disability, or if individual services or reducing services and not inform the insured within sixty days.
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Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture: More than technology With Sencilo HealthIT Solutions eHealthcare Architecture, you can leverage the same productivity tools and technology resources that have transformed business. And you get a full portfolio of services too. By working with Sencilo HealthIT Solutions, you can get:
A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
Easy setup, implementation and maintenance
Simple ordering and delivery
Technology training
Flexible financing options
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services makes it easy.
In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, pediatrics, dermatology, electronic documention, CCI edits, CPT codes, ICD 9 Codes, ICD 10 codes, comploiance, electronic medical records, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
Electronic Medical Records: What Is “Meaningful Use?” - June 18, 2010
Orlando Florida --
June 15th, 2010 by DrRob in Better Health Network, Health Policy, Opinion
Quiz: What does the term “meaningful use” mean?
A. Using something in a way that gives life purpose and leads to carefree days of glee.
B. It depends on your definition of the word “term.”
C. It’s not mean. It’s really nice.
D. A large number of rules created by the government to assess a practice’s use of electronic medical records (EMRs) so that they can spur adoption, give criteria for incentive rewards, and have physicians in a place where care can be measured.
E. Job security for those making money off of health IT.
The answer, of course, is D and E.
“Meaningful use,” in the eyes of many is seen as curse words, especially doctors. Here are the rules:
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Under the plan, physicians will be paid cash dollars for meeting these criteria. Here’s the payment:
•2011 –- $18,000 per physician, one-time payment
•2012 –- $12,000
•2013 –- $8,000
•2014 –- $4,000
•2015 –- $2,000
•2016 –- $0
•2017 –- 1% penalty in Medicare payments if you do not qualify.
•2018 and beyond –- 2% penalty. More criteria to qualify? More quality measures? More penalties for not meeting criteria? Stricter criteria for A1cs? Other insurance companies using the same criteria or different criteria? More government control is a definite.
So what’s the big deal? Why would doctors be against getting extra money? Here are some of the main reasons:
1.They don’t want to use EMR and feel like the government is forcing them.
2.They think the rules are so onerous that it’s hopeless to even try.
3.They only like yellow charts, and the blue ones make them feel depressed.
4.They see that eventually non-adoption of EMR will be penalized. This makes many conclude that “meaningful use” is just a ploy for the government to cut reimbursement.
I, too, wish the chart was yellow, but overall I am not upset about all of this. The reason I am not upset is entirely selfish: I have been on EMR for 14 years and use a high-end product, so I will very likely be awarded the full $$ and avoid penalties. I also see this as an opportunity for physicians practicing good care to be seen as good doctors, and the bad ones to actually be penalized instead of rewarded.
You see, I have always seen EMR as much more than a computerized version of the paper chart. The true value in EMR is not that you get to type, it is that all of the information is stored in a single place, organized, and easily retrieved when needed. Using an EMR for documentation alone is like using a car to travel only as fast as you can walk. If payment is not so much based on the quality of my coding and my note-taking, but instead based on the quality of the care I give, isn’t that a good thing? Isn’t that what we should want?
No Patient Left Behind
The devil is in the details. Or, to be more accurate, the devil is in DC. The real problem with “meaningful use” is the fact that it is a mandate. Mandates like this –- the use of testing/criteria by the government to get people to act in a certain way -– have a huge flaw. This is best understood with another mandate of the government that has caused it’s own trouble: the No Child Left Behind law of 2001.
The intent of the NCLB law was to improve the quality of education in the U.S. It established standardized testing to:
1.Set a minimum requirement for education –- students cannot be passed on to higher grades unless they pass the test.
2.Held schools accountable for quality. Schools performing in the lowest range on the standardized testing would be publicly identified and penalized.
3.Teachers with low student scores would be penalized as well.
But the law of unintended consequences has caught up with NCLB, with schools/teachers “gaming” the system, undo focus on test-passage over comprehensive education, and squashing of teacher creativity with fear of low test-scores. Talking to teachers and parents (as a pediatrician), there is very little love for the NCLB law.
And children pay the price of this legislation as well. I saw a child recently who is a very hard worker, a very conscientious child, and who has been able to get mainly B’s in his classes. The problem for him is that he does not take standardized tests well. Despite medication and even allowances made in the testing setting, he fails the test which covers information he has shown in the classroom that he knows. The government calls his school and teacher as the cause of his failure, but he is the one who has to be held back until he’s able to pass the test.
In the same way, making a bunch of criteria for EMR use is sure to have a slew of unintended consequences. Doctors will select EMR systems based on meaningful use criteria, not on how well they work. Doctors will select patients who can get the scores higher and discharge those who probably need the most help.
Sounds familiar.
Meaningful “Meaningful Use”
What should be done? The real question should be: what can an EMR do to impact patient care that would be truly meaningful? If an EMR improves the ability of the doctor to take care of the patient, that is meaningful. But if the EMR makes the doctor pay more attention to qualifying for the cash payment than to the real care of the patient, it is more meaningless use.
I use an EMR every day. I use it because it helps me give better care and makes our office run more efficiently. If we have a new process that works better by using paper, we use paper. We are not wed to the idea of using computers, we are committed to good process and excellent care. The good news for us is that doing so has made us efficient enough to increase our revenue significantly at the same time that we improve our care quality. That’s what everyone wants.
It really worries me that the imposition of these criteria on EMR will dilute my focus on patients with a focus on achieving “meaningful use.” This is similar to the experience of many good teachers who had to abandon more creative teaching methods to ensure better test performance. If the criteria are not right, they will do this — there is no question.
So before imposing a set of criteria to be evaluated on doctors, we need to be sure that the criteria themselves are scrutinized. For them to truly improve care and not add more burdens to medical offices, they should:
•Improve doctor/patient communication.
•Make information more accessible to doctors and patients.
•Capture data automatically, not necessitating extra steps that could distract from care.
•Capture data so it can be used for reminders and clinical decision making at the point of care.
•Improve doctor/doctor communication (primary care to specialists and hospitals).
•Capture interventions, not just outcomes. For example, the prescription of a blood pressure medication should be rewarded, not only if the patient takes it. The ordering of a mammogram should be rewarded, not just if the patient gets it done.
•Systems should be required to “close the loop” for interventions, meaning that ordering providers should be alerted to any test, procedure, or consult results that do not come back. This is an enormous problem that frustrates many doctors and patients, increases medical liability, and causes harm. Computers are good at this kind of thing.
I’m sure there are more, but my word count is getting high. The bottom line: “Meaningful use” has to be truly meaningful.
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Blumenthal Talks Health IT Security - June 18, 2010
Orlando Florida --
National health information technology coordinator Dr. David Blumenthal gave an interview with Information Week Healthcare to discuss, among other topics, the importance of keeping data safe from cyber threats.
“The HITECH act enacted a whole series of provisions to tighten the privacy and security laws under HIPAA,” said Blumenthal. “The Office of Civil Rights has already issued an interim final rule on breach notification that requires the notification of patients or other individuals whose data is breached.”
Blumenthal also noted an increase in heat on healthcare providers who lose personal health data or are raided due to a failure to comply or negligence in meeting regulations.
“There’s also a series of much harsher penalties for breaches due to negligence. There are a series of restrictions on the use of patient information for the marketing of products, for fundraising, or for other uses they haven’t given permission for. These will begin to give the public some insight into what we’re doing.
Blumenthal also noted a considerable amount of contact with the White House concerning cyber safety.
“Beyond that we’ve begun working with (White House cyber coordinator Howard Schmidt) to make healthcare a model program to tighten security of information in general,” he said. “We’re looking top to bottom at the security standards and technologies available to providers to protect health information.”
McDonnell WM. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2010;164:572-576.
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Adult patients with chronic pediatric disorders continue to use pediatric ED - June 18, 2010
Orlando Florida --
Because pediatric specialists, hospitals and institutions often remain the preferred sources of care for transition patients — adult patients with chronic pediatric disorders — these health care providers must be equipped to treat the unique medical complications experienced by this population, according to recent study data.
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“Transition patients’ chronic pediatric disorders may be unfamiliar to adult-care physicians, yet their acute conditions may involve areas of adult medicine unfamiliar to pediatric physicians,” wrote researchers at the Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City, who conducted the trial. “As increasing numbers of children with chronic pediatric disorders survive into adulthood, answers to these questions will take on increasing urgency.”
A retrospective descriptive study was conducted to examine adult patients with chronic pediatric disorders seen in the hospital’s pediatric ED during 2005. Outcome measures included number of patients, presenting complaints, hospital admissions and physicians’ preparation for treating this population.
Adults comprised 1% of the 43,621 patient encounters in the pediatric ED, according to the researchers, and of this population, 44% were considered transition patients, with ages ranging from 19 to 37 years. Seventy-seven percent of transition patients also had an ongoing relationship with at least one pediatric subspecialty clinic associated with the hospital, and many visited multiple clinics. Twenty percent did not have primary care providers, but 83% of these patients had relationships with subspecialty clinics.
Results also indicated that most patients presented with neurologic problems, although 45% of medical complaints had no direct correlation with the patient’s chronic pediatric disorder. Ninety-eight percent of complaints, however, fell within the attending physicians’ training and experience.
The researchers also noted that 86% of patient encounters resulted in consultation with at least one pediatric subspecialty service, and only 7% required no diagnostic tests or medical or surgical procedures.
Data also showed that transition patients were 2.1 times more likely to be admitted to the hospital (95% CI, 1.8-2.5) than patients aged younger than 19 years. Median length of hospital stay — 4 days — was also longer in this population when compared with 2 days for pediatric patients (P<.001). Transition patients were also 4.5 times (95% CI, 3.3-6.1) more likely to be admitted to the ICU during their stay when compared with pediatric patients.
“We found that adults with chronic pediatric disorders use the pediatric ED in substantial numbers,” the researchers wrote. “These patients require a large quantity of diagnostic and treatment resources relative to their numbers. … Unless large-scale policy decisions are made to provide acute care for these patients at adult facilities, pediatric hospitals should be prepared with adequate resources and training to deal with these complex adult patients.”
In an accompanying editorial, Clarissa Kripke, MD,and Kevin Grumbach, MD, both with the department of family and community medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, wrote: “With growing national attention to expanding health insurance coverage and centering the delivery of care around patient-centered medical homes, now is the time to implement reforms in payment, training, and health care organization so that all patients with complex chronic conditions are assured coordinated, comprehensive, quality health care across their life span.”
Kripke and Grumbach also said the transfer of pediatric and adult care is too abrupt, and that the process of moving patients from a one setting to the next should be a collaborative process involving the provider, the patient and the patient’s family.
Kripke C. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2010;164:581-582.
McDonnell WM. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2010;164:572-576.
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Dragon dictation for email updated – Now supports BlackBerry smartphones Tour - June 18, 2010
Orlando Florida --
Dragon-messaging application is simply amazing! I have it on multiple devices (Blackberry and IPAD), and it has never failed to dictate my e-mails to date. Of course, he initially had some problems with my “aboot” and “eh”, but if you learn but it is so very sweet.
The initial realese Dragon was not that great good for some homeowners BlackBerry Tower. Many problems in the application not correctly loaded or not work at all easy. Nuance have solved the makers of Dragon E-mail with the problemDr. latest version is currently via BlackBerry App World is available. Frankly, I’m not sure if it was updated correctly, but I was told that this solve the problem for owners of Sprint Tour. Unfortunately, the app only in the U.S. so, if you live elsewhere, problems in finding a direct link to the current version 1.6.2, there are currently sits.
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A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
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Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
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Maintenance
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About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, pediatrics, dermatology, electronic documention, CCI edits, CPT codes, ICD 9 Codes, ICD 10 codes, comploiance, electronic medical records, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
Dragon Dictation for your iDevice (iPad, iPhone and so on) - June 18, 2010
Orlando Florida --
Not too long ago Nuance released its Dragon Dictation app for the iPad, iPhone and so on (iDevices, I prefer to refer to them as). I’ve now had an opportunity to experiment with this app.
The recognition accuracy is fairly good, considering the technology is based on voice recognition (and not speech recognition). Unlike Dragon for the PC, there is no opportunity to train, and neither can your accuracy improve as there is no means to correct.
The recognition accuracy is entirely dependent on the user and their use of the available microphone. Proficient users of Dragon should be able to obtain near perfect accuracy. Newcomers to this technology will no doubt have mixed results. However, as there is no method for adding or modifying words in its vocabulary, the Dragon Dictation app is little more than a note taking tool.
Having said that, I was impressed with the accuracy I managed to achieve. But as the iPad, for instance, does not allow for multi-tasking, one must dictate into the Dragon Dictation app, and then copy and paste the resulting text into its ultimate destination. This is not a tool for chatting or for filling out forms and so on. But again, as I already said, Dragon Dictation makes for an acceptable note taker.
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A dedicated customer team
A website customized for your institution
A full portfolio of robust solutions
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In addition to providing high-quality technology at a low cost, Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional
Services can help you plan your healthcare computing from the ground up. By working with you from the initial construction phases, we can help you save time and money and lead to a truly customized solution.
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
Support
About Us
Sencilo HealthIT Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in EHR Cost Cutting storage, security and managed services solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including Allscripts, VMware, Dell Fujitsu EMC, Hitachi, Symantec, IBM, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Gateway Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Orlando Lake Mary Daytona, Medical City solutions include Security "meaningful use" "meaningful usage" EMC HP IBM Quantum Compliance Gartner Magic Quadrant Quadrent LTO Daytona Beach Deland Melborne Tampa Clearwater, Dragon, Voice Recognition, Dragon Dictation
Network Backup appliance Data Recovery Backup Health IT Healthcare IT Digital Hospital Allscripts Patient Data electronic health record P4P rules and the HITECH Act PayerView Rankings practice management tools $44,000 in Medicare or $66,000 in Medicaid from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act eClinicalWorks, Allscripts, NextGen, GE Centricity, and Meditech Electronic Healthcare IT Medical Records EHR Clinical Practices eClinicalWorks Allscripts Florida EMR, EHR, electronic medical record, health, records, practice management systems solutions, medication services, PHR Otolaryngology, Orthopaedics, pediatrics, dermatology, electronic documention, CCI edits, CPT codes, ICD 9 Codes, ICD 10 codes, comploiance, electronic medical records, Pain Nuerosurgery, Urology, Ophthalmology, Cardiology, Billing, Appointment Scheduling, clinicalworks, eClinicalWorks, solutions for physicians, hospitals, clinical education and medical services Computerized Patient CPR, Order Entry, CPOE, Document Clinical Information Informatics, Computer-based, SOAP, HIT, Healthcare Encounter Forms, web based, online, clinical rules database, electronic prescribing, e-prescribing, eprescribing, athenaClinicals, certified EMR, certified EHR, HITECH Act VAR Reseller Dealer hipaa privacy doctor, healthcare performance management, data security, hosting, arra, free, InterFAX, MyWay, HIPPA, EasyPayMedicare, MedicAID, SureScripts, FNC, billing, superbill iMedica Tiger on Windows, eprescribe pqri simple practice management revenue cycle e-cw e-clinicalworks greenway emds nextgen ge sage athena epic klas Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault Health Internet certified "meaningful use" violations HealthPresence Health Presence Sencilo “transformative” telemedicine medicaid medicare Seminole County Medical Society Orange county Orlando Medical News Trusted Advisor e-Prescription e-Rx CareTracker paperless scanning document storage hippa audits iscribe document scanning fi-6130 fi-6040 CCHIT ARRA surescript
Bumenthal: Meaningful Use is Not Asking Too Much, Too Soon - June 18, 2010
Orlando Florida --
When HHS finalizes its Stage 1 rules for meaningful use of EMRs, likely in the next two weeks, don't be surprised if the criteria aren't all that different from those proposed at the end of 2009.
In a post on the ONC's Health IT Buzz blog, national health IT coordinator Dr. David Blumenthal seems to reject the argument from many camps that the proposed standards are too difficult to attain, instead siding with those who believe that EMRs are a centerpiece of true health reform. "The question healthcare providers are facing today is whether we are pushing too hard, too fast to make this important change. I respectfully submit, no. In turn, I ask, 'Can we make these changes expeditiously enough?'" Blumenthal writes.
"This is the time to realize the promise of health IT. Information technology has improved every aspect of our lives, we need to channel information technology to improve our health and care. Providing patients with improved quality and safety, more efficient care and better outcomes is paramount," Blumenthal says, though he doesn't tip his hand on specific points that might be in the final rule.
Blumenthal recalls his days of practicing internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, noting that he resisted switching to an EMR himself. "Over time, however, I found that working with health IT made me a better and safer physician. Most importantly, my patients received better, safer care and improved outcomes," he says. It's time, according to Blumenthal, for all Americans to get better care delivered at lower cost.
He recommends the Regional Extension Center program for providers who might otherwise feel lost on their journey toward meaningful use.
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