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HIPAA Compliant Physician Billing Services - July 13, 2010
Orlando Florida --
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HIPAA compliant physician billing services ensure proper and timely reimbursement of claims. The customized billing services that established medical billing companies offer include insurance verification and authorization, charge entry, insurance collection, collection agency reporting, patient collection, cash posting and reconciliation.
Medical billing companies have a team of expert staff that works to maximize their claim reimbursements, minimize administrative expenses and meet HIPAA regulations. The procedure involves enrollment into the billing system, verification of insurance and authorizations, coding, billing and reconciling of accounts, and Accounts Receivable collections.
HIPAA Compliance for Document Security
Physician practices that outsource their billing tasks risk the loss of information privacy. With HIPAA compliant physician billing services, physicians can make sure that the privacy rights of their patients are protected. The medical outsourcing companies take extra security measures to provide complete security, privacy and confidentiality for the services they provide. For this, they streamline their structure, technical equipment and capabilities, and administration procedures according to HIPAA security norms. Some of the added benefits of HIPAA compliant physician billing services are:
• Periodic backup of data and critical facilities accessibility
• Technical evaluations are performed on a routine basis
• Secure workstations, storage facility and authorized access
• Firewalls and antivirus software on all systems are updated frequently.
Physician Billing Services – Save Time and Expenses
Medical professionals can reduce administrative expenses and maximize their claim reimbursements with physician billing services. Medical billing experts will effectively manage all their billing tasks, so that they can concentrate on their core business. Outsourcing is also a cost-effective way of managing their administrative tasks as physicians can save the expenses that would be needed for employing personnel for managing their medical billing procedures. Since every aspect of the billing procedure is effectively handled by the billing companies, physicians can be sure of getting their claims processed in a timely manner.
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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
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Top 3 understated aspects of ICD-10 - July 13, 2010
Orlando Florida --
July 13, 2010 | Tom Sullivan, Contributing Writer
To many healthcare IT professionals the phrase ICD-10 is downright frightening. Mammoth in expanse and expense, the conversion, along with the requisite HIPAA 5010, is the stuff of Jungian nightmares, early retirement, or profound career changes.
The closer that the corresponding HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10 compliance dates get – January 1, 2012 and October 1, 2013 respectively – the clearer the picture will become as well. But with 18 months left for HIPAA 5010 and about two-and-a-half years for ICD-10, many healthcare organizations are hazy about the mandates.
Given the complexity of both, and the fact that they are essentially best taken together, that's not at all surprising. Neither is the fact that with the deadlines ostensibly distant, there are many pieces of HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10 that, as of today, have been rather understated.
Bearing that in mind, ICD10Watch compiled such a list.
1 Better patient care
The overarching and ultimate promise of ICD-10, yet one aspect that even this ICD-10-obsessed writer hears little about, is how it will improve patient care on scales both individual and international.
“If ICD-10 is utilized appropriately as it is in the rest of the world, the output is much more reliable information on outcomes,” says Jim Dugan, partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers. “Everyone would agree that having more detailed information could only help the research population in regards to looking at clinical trials. Certainly, looking at overall utilization of services that come out through the system is another added benefit of ICD-10.”
More granular codes, it follows, can be better analyzed to study health trends and yield more positive outcomes.
“The new code set will link the U.S. to all other industrialized countries identifying and managing health threats and outbreaks,” explains Tori Sullivan, a manager in Capgemini's healthcare division who also chairs HIMSS ICD-10 Task Force. “Most importantly, ICD-10 enables us to more quickly identify and resolve coding errors, thus improving the submitted data. The quality of our healthcare has the opportunity to improve as a result of ICD-10 data, improving both individual and national healthcare quality.”
2 The benefits of HIPAA 5010
Commonly viewed as a pesky EDI pre-cursor to ICD-10, the forthcoming HIPAA 5010 actually brings some 500 enhancements over 4010 and an overflowing handful of benefits, though these are currently poorly understood.
Even the folks at CMS (The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) basically buried its list of HIPAA 5010's advantages during the last National Provider Conference Call on the subject. Highlighting 7 benefits of HIPAA 5010 required CMS to be broad, as in “supports e-health initiatives now and in the future” and to be very specific, “provides infrastructure on ICD-10 and Present on Admission Indicator.” Others include: less ambiguity in the implementation guides, improved utility of the NCPDP standards, compliance with Part D requirements, and supports standardization of companion guides across the industry.
HIPAA 5010 will “offer consistency of processing for payers and clearinghouses,” that 4010 does not, Christine Stahlecker, CMS director of medical billing procedures, said during the provider conference call.
3 The possibility of “Minimum Compliance”
PricewaterhouseCoopers' Dugan says “the thing that I’ve not heard too many people talk about is the various ways of looking at ICD-10 from a minimum compliance perspective.”
Think of this as an approach in which healthcare organizations meet the mandate first, as required by law, then reap rewards later as doing so becomes strategic to heir business. How much later? That all depends. As does the nationwide effectiveness of ICD-10. “The question is: Will the provider community embrace that day one, or is that something that’s really not October 2013 but could be October 2016? And there’s a further migration strategy there,” Dugan adds.
Any possibility of minimum compliance is fast becoming a probability. Indeed, Deloitte in May said that, among its clients, the payers who were amid a move from ICD-10 assessment and into remediation found the task so much more challenging and expensive that they are adjusting their expectation from innovative to merely pragmatic, meaning they plan to adhere to minimum compliance, at least initially.
The downside to the legal bare minimum? “The longer it persists where we are taking a minimal approach, then you’re limiting the information you have available to you and it’s going to take that much longer to get some of the benefits where you can set best practices or compare doctors more easily,” says Cathy Veum, senior manager with Noblis health innovation unit. “Those things will come down the pike, but the more quickly you have the robust data the sooner that’s going to happen. If we drag this on and take the minimal approach it’s going to be many more years.”
Those are just three of the understated aspects of ICD-10. What others have you found?
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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, eprescribe, 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
7/9/10 - CPMG selects Allscripts's electronic health record solution - July 9, 2010
Orlando Florida --
Jul 09, 2010 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) Central Penn Management Group, or CPMG, a physician management services organization, has selected the Allscripts's electronic health record for Physicians Alliance, or PAL, an independent multi-specialty group managed by CPMG.
CPMG will utilize the Allscripts READY package to accelerate implementation of the electronic health record (EHR) and integration with its existing Allscripts Vision practice management system.
The group also will implement Allscripts analytics to generate quality reports needed to help the physician group earn pay-for-performance rewards from insurers and to demonstrate meaningful use of the EHR, a requirement for physicians to qualify for EHR incentive payments under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Utilizing READY, CPMG expects to deploy the Allscripts EHR to all of the PAL providers within 12 months.
CPMG is in discussions with non-PAL practices about the possibility of providing access to the Allscripts EHR. CPMG will host the Allscripts EHR on its own servers to add more practices, in addition to supporting the practices on an on-going basis.
Lee Meyers, president and CEO of CPMG, said: "We selected Allscripts because the PAL physicians were very impressed with its usability and functionality. In addition, our central billing office is already using the Allscripts practice management system, which connects directly to the Allscripts EHR, so we won't have to buy a new billing system."
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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, eprescribe, 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
Mental Health Data Breached in Maine - July 9, 2010
Orlando Florida --
HDM Breaking News, July 6, 2010
The University of Maine is notifying 4,585 current and former students after two servers holding information from the school's mental health and support counseling center were breached.
Data on the servers, covering students who sought counseling services between Aug. 8, 2002, and June 21, 2010, includes names, Social Security numbers and clinical information. "Any student or former student who visited the counseling center as a UMaine student since Aug. 8, 2002, should assume that he or she is in the affected database," according to a statement the university has issued.
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The university began an investigation on June 16 after staff members reported difficulty accessing server files. An archive server holding data from 2002 to 2005 was found to have been hacked as early as March 4. The hacker then used that server to access an active server holding all data from the past eight years.
Investigators have found no evidence that data was viewed or downloaded, according to the university. The school is offering those effected at least one year of free credit and identity theft prevention services. The university also will conduct a review to determine necessary security improvements.
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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, eprescribe, 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
ONC Now Accepting EHR Certification Applications - July 9, 2010
Orlando Florida --
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has begun accepting applications from organizations that wish to be temporarily certified for using electronic health record systems.
The certification deems the health care providers eligible for federal funding as long as their EHR use falls under the ‘meaningful use‘ requirements, a set regulatory metrics established under the The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act that was passed in 2009.
While the rules have not yet been finalized, the guidelines for providers to fall under certification were proposed in March.
Carol Bean, a standards harmonization analyst for ONC, said that HHS has already received about 40 application inquiries and 14 requests for applications.
The organizations that fall under the requirements will be eligible to receive a portion of the $36 billion available under the legislation’s incentive funds.
With EHR technology certification, healthcare providers can be assured the adopted EHR technology has been tested and includes the required capabilities they need to use the technology in a meaningful way. The certification applications will potentially improve quality and efficiency in the healthcare system by establishing a level of continuity among EHR users.
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For more information please call (407) 494-4EHR (4347) or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com and let us "Uncomplexify your Information
Technology"
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, eprescribe, 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
How to choose an EHR after a demo - July 9, 2010
by Rosemarie Nelson, MS
Selecting an EHR is not just about the demo. But those EHR vendors sure do put a lot of focus on that demo! You need to get beyond the smoke and mirrors and consider how to use that focus to evaluate the solution as it meets your needs and requirements.
Before you even schedule any vendor demonstrations, write down your “must haves.” Can you identify your top 10 requirements?
For example, in one practice I work with, the system must track all pap smears for outstanding results and also automate notification to the patients of their result. In another, the EHR must incorporate a point-of-sale purchase of retail items. A 10-physician internal medicine practice required that their EHR solution incorporate voice recognition software to ease the transition for keyboard-phobic physicians.
Different specialties have different needs, and you should think of as many specialty-specific requirements as possible. Having an interface to the lab results for the bulk of your patients (75% to 80%) is an absolute requirement in primary care, for instance. Try asking yourself: What do I do that doctors in other specialties don’t? Figure out how those differences would translate to functions in the EHR.
You can also incorporate the criteria that CMS will use to define Meaningful Use of an EHR for its incentive program to determine how your use of the EHR system will address specific objectives. (Even though the criteria are only in the interim final rule stage, wholesale changes don’t usually happen past that point.)
For example, it is likely that collecting the smoking status on all patients ages 13 and older will be one of the objectives, so ask the EHR vendor to show you how their solution prompts you and/or your staff to ask the patient, document the response, and then generate the collective data for reporting.
Articulating your needs and requirements is just the first step for effective evaluation of system demonstrations.
The second step is to use those needs to create a scoring tool to track and document the EHR demonstration against the needs.
Keep the scoring simple. A 3-2-1 system will do just fine. The vendor scores a “3″ for a specific need if the system exceeds your requirement, a “2″ for meeting your requirements and a “1″ if the system does not meet your requirements. The higher the vendor’s score, the better fit the system is for your practice.
How does the scoring tool help after you’ve viewed three or four demonstrations? You can approach the comparison several ways.
The most basic — though not necessarily the best — way is to look at the total score for each product. High score wins and that’s the one you buy.
Or you can compare the vendors on each “need” individually. Clearly if a vendor scored a “1″ on each element, that product is a no-go. That’s probably unlikely, though, so you’ll need to prioritize your “needs.” Again, the product that has the highest scores on the most number of top-priority elements is your winner.
It may also help to have a “deal-breaker” need. If a vendor scores a “1″ on that one item, even if his system has “2″s and “3″s on all the others, you might want to rule it out.
You may also decide to include some “nice-to-have” features on your list. If so, scores on those items may tip the scale for one product over another.
It is easy to get distracted during a demo by all the features and functions the company representative will show you. Many systems have polished user interfaces and many demonstration specialists have perfected their skill at showing off the sizzle in their system.
But if you begin the demo preparation with the end in mind — by clearly articulating your objectives and vision for your EHR implementation — you will identify the solution that will have the greatest opportunity for successful use in your practice.
Focus on how the solution meets your requirements, not on the man behind the screen as you travel down the road to your EHR selection.
Rosemarie Nelson is a principal with the MGMA Health Care Consulting Group.
Originally published in MedPage Today. Visit MedPageToday.com for more practice management news.
OMB Completes HIPAA Rules Review - July 9, 2010
Orlando Florida --
Dom Nicastro, for HealthLeaders Media, July 6, 2010
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has finished its review of proposed rules related to changes to HIPAA privacy and security rules, meaning the rules could hit the streets this week.
The OMB reports that it has concluded its regulatory review of the rules HHS sent in April.
Jana Aagaard, Of Counsel, Catholic Healthcare West in the Sacramento Legal Department and of the Law Office of Jana Aagaard in Carmichael, CA, told HealthLeaders Media that regulations could be released as soon as Wednesday. If that's the case, they would be posted in the Federal Register formally a few days later, Aagaard said.
It is unclear exactly which proposed rules will be released. According to the OMB website, HHS "will issue rules to modify the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Enforcement Rules as necessary to implement the privacy, security, and certain enforcement provisions of subtitle D of the [HITECH]."
In March, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which enforces the HIPAA privacy and security rules under HHS, said forthcoming regulations would include:
•Business associate (BA) liability
•New limitations on the sale of personal health information, marketing, and fundraising communications
•Stronger individual rights to access electronic medical records and restricting the disclosure of certain information
The industry has been waiting on rules from OCR concerning HITECH provisions effective February 17.
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Cloud Computing Will Change the Way You Practice - July 9, 2010
Orlando Florida --
By Steven Kraus, DC, DIBCN, CCSP, FASA, FICC
Cloud computing will likely permanently change the way you interact with your clinic records and your software. This transition to data on the cloud, an Internet-accessible database, is going to shift the way you practice.
Last month, I outlined a vision of how our profession could finally be recognized for our contribution to our nation's health - a future I believe is just around the corner. An important part of this vision is the way "computing on the cloud" is going to change the security and accessibility of our clinical and patient data.
Because cloud computing is going to change how data moves and is stored, it will change the way we practice in three ways: (1) Our data back-up is going to be less costly and easier to maintain, which will drive down the overall cost of documentation. (2) Our data is going to be more secure, which will make our records safer and more permanent. (3) Our data is going to be more accessible to us and our patients, which means faster response times for information requests and better clinical decision-making. And you can have relevant information from your electronic health record (EHR) accessible from anywhere in the world as long as you are connected to the Internet.
What Is Cloud Computing?
The best way to understand cloud computing is to consider the cloud as an Internet-accessible database of your clinic's patient charts and your practice management systems data. Cloud computing happens when the Internet itself becomes the connecting method where your data is stored and managed. No, this is not just opening a Web browser to check your e-mail account through your local cable mode, or setting up a fancy network with a server in your office. It is a little bit of both. And that is what makes it different.
First, cloud computing in the chiropractic office will not be like current Web-based programs. Currently, there are a handful of documentation and clinic management products that are managed completely on the Internet. You access the software through a Web browser, you sign in through a Web browser, and rather than anything being stored/downloaded locally on your computer (including the software), everything is located out on a Web server. Those of you who have them or have tried them have a clear picture of how they work. For the rest of you, just imagine signing into a retail-store Web site to access your EHR data to do a SOAP note to get an idea of how they work. They are similar, albeit slower and not as graphically rich in content.
Second, cloud computing is not like the current computing model whereby the software and the data is stored within the four walls of your clinic (the system that most of us are used to). We have a handful of computers, and for these computers we buy a handful of software programs with multiple licenses. When we want to use this software, we install it in our machines in our offices and go from there. Larger clinics, savvier clinics, and clinics going completely digital will set up an internal network, with all the computers sharing files and data and hooked up to an internal server. It's also called the "client-server" model.
Benefits and Weaknesses
Any system has its benefits and drawbacks, and so it goes with the Web browser-based model and the client-server model. The major benefit of the browser-based model is obvious to anyone who has ever tried this kind of software interaction - it's simple. There's no extensive software to install and not a lot of hardware to buy. You need access to the Internet through a local cable modem or DSL service, and off you go. However, this simplicity does come with a price; the software itself is simplified because its speed depends on the speed of an Internet connection. The software cannot be as graphics-heavy and robust because with every scroll of the screen, the browser has to reload.
The strengths and weaknesses of the client-server model are actually opposite of browser-based software. The client server is faster and can be graphics-heavy because everything is stored locally. But that means it involves more hardware and infrastructure, and in digital clinics with electronic health records, the set-up and running of servers (which can get complicated depending on the situation). Servers also require an IT specialist to keep it running smoothly with the proper configuration.
Internet Computing With Power
Cloud computing effectively offers us the robust software that we are used to with the client-server model, along with the simplicity of the Web-browser model. Much of the software is stored on your local PCs. But the connection to the cloud servers means you can network your computers without a server inside your office. When you log on to your clinic software suite through your computer, you will be using the EHR software loaded on your PC for screen interfaces. You will be using the Internet to access the cloud servers for your database. The graphics and interface are loaded locally on your PC, but all the data itself is accessed from the Internet or "the cloud," making the process fast and simple.
Lower Costs, Easier to Access Data
With Internet-based data, you need less "stuff" to make your software work, and that means savings. I have seen firsthand the way the cloud model simplifies the process of establishing and implementing an EHR into a clinic. You do not need to set up a server in your clinic. With a few regular computers hooked up to the cloud through a local high-speed Internet connection, the office is ready to go. There is still some investment in the PC and the Internet to be turned on in your office, but these expenses were likely already present.
In addition to less hardware (as in no server required), there is the fact that cost of data storage is getting cheaper. As technology advances, we are able to save more and more data in smaller and smaller spaces. Your experience buying memory for a device like a digital camera reflects this. Today, you can buy 8 gigabytes worth of storage space for the same price you used to pay for less than 2 gigabytes. And this is combined with the fact that the HIPAA-compliant paper-file storage units, file folders, and all the accessories that make paper records work, will not be necessary, further reducing costs.
The math on this technology is relatively simple: Less hardware and everything stored remotely on cheaper memory equals decreased costs associated with electronic health records. This will help lower the costs of an all-digital health care system. And it will make the system more accessible for everyone.
Safer and More Permanent Records
We tend to think that digital data is more vulnerable than paper records, but nothing is further from the truth. Yes, data on the cloud is going to be far more accessible (only to yourself with your pass-codes and verification measures) than it ever has before, but that does not mean strangers are going to be able to search your patient files. Just like credit-card data, banking data, and your Amazon purchase history, private health information will be adequately protected and secured by federal standards like encryption technology.
What makes our cloud data so accessible is actually what makes it so much safer than paper: redundancy. When you write a SOAP note by hand, you get a copy of that SOAP note. When you write a SOAP note within an EHR on the cloud, you get that original note. And then you get a backup, and you will even get a second and third backup on different servers located in different secured nuclear bunker locations. While a single paper SOAP note could easily be lost, or destroyed by fire, theft or other disaster, digital notes are protected and secured on servers around the country, and they would have to be simultaneously destroyed by a nuclear bomb in order for your SOAP note to disappear.
Under the old model, thousands of paper records that help prove the worth of your practice are vulnerable. You are one flood, fire, earthquake, or tornado away from losing all your history as a doctor. On the cloud, your whole practice could be stored in micrometer's worth of space and be backed up to exist forever.
More Accessibility and Transparency
If you read last month's column, you know that cloud computing is an integral part of my vision for chiropractic's future. This vision would not be possible without the redundancy of data I just addressed. Yes, our data will be protected from prying eyes, but we will have the ability to aggregate patient de-identified data to demonstrate our outcomes.
You can choose to share your outcomes to prove the effectiveness of chiropractic care. Outcomes data is going to be more transparent to our patients and the health care community as we move forward beyond the deadline of 2015 for EHR implementation.
Cloud computing will also allow faster sharing of records in a multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary setting. In the paper world, we might fax or mail over a narrative report. In the traditional EHR model, we would electronically fax or e-mail that document. Coming soon, there will be state-operated health information exchanges that are being developed to allow providers to connect locally with hospitals and the rest of the health care community. It will allow you to obtain information on your patients regarding radiology results, lab results, their medication list, or other health information as long as the patient has authorized you to access that data. In the near future of cloud computing, we might see medical doctors logging in to a health information exchange to see their patient health data and learn that chiropractic care has resulted in a successful outcome for the patient's problems, and in a very cost-effective manner. Technology will be chiropractic's greatest friend in expanding access to new and existing patients.
Less Costly, Safer and Secure, Faster Access
The power of cloud computing is a power that is going to affect our practices. The shift to running our clinic software through powerful remote servers is going to reduce hardware requirements needed to run clinics. It is also going to make our data storage less costly and more secure, and ultimately more accessible, improving the care we deliver to our patients. Data on the cloud is part of a brighter future of chiropractic practice.
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A website customized for your institution
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Procurement
Installation
Training
Maintenance
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Healthcare Meaningful Use Criteria In Final Review - July 9, 2010
Orlando Florida --
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has sent its final meaningful use rules to the Office of Management and Budget for review, the last step before publishing the regulations.
By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
InformationWeek
July 7, 2010 01:30 PM
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act's long-awaited meaningful use criteria are in the home stretch.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has sent its final meaningful use rules to the Office of Management and Budget for review, the last step before publishing the regulations in the Federal Register for them to become effective.
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World's coolest bluetooth headset, live from the Consumer Electronics Show.The HHS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' final rules for its "Health Information Technology: Initial Set of Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification Criteria for Electronic Health Record Technology," was sent to OMB for review on July 2, according to the OMB's Reginfo.gov site.
The Reginfo.gov site provides the public with information related to OMB regulatory reviews "consistent with the disclosure requirements of Executive Order 12866, President Obama’s January 21, 2009, Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government, and the OMB Open Government Directive," according to OMB.
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The review process can take up to 90 days, said OMB. However, with President Obama's health IT czar Dr. David Blumenthal's repeatedly stated goal of publishing the rule by "late spring or early summer," the review could be completed sooner.
Also, under the $20 billion-plus HITECH Act signed into law by Obama in Feb. 2009 as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, healthcare providers are to become eligible for meaningful use financial rewards beginning in 2011.
However, without the final set of meaningful use criteria formalized yet, many healthcare providers and vendors of health IT products, such as e-heath record systems, have worried that they won't have sufficient time to meet the first wave of meaningful use requirements.
Until the final meaningful use rules clear the OMB review and are published, healthcare providers and others will continue to speculate on what changes were made by HHS in response to the more than 2,000 public comments it received to its interim meaningful use rules published in the Federal Register on Jan. 13, 2010.
According to OMB, this current review "is the last step of the rulemaking process." However, in the meantime, healthcare providers shouldn't expect a peek of the final rules.
"Draft documents under review are considered deliberative and are not available for public release during review," according to OMB.
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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
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Sencilo HealthIT Solutions Professional Services offers complete services that include:
Design
Procurement
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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
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CMS: Final Meaningful Use, Certification Rules Sent by OMB - July 9, 2010
Orlando Florida --
July 8, 2010 — 12:45pm ET | By Neil Versel
How do we know the rules for meaningful use will be out any day now? CMS has sent its regulatory language to the White House Office of Management and Budget for review, the final stage in the rulemaking process.
Health Data Management reports that OMB has received the regulations for meaningful use and the related final EHR certification criteria, the latter developed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Once OMB signs off, both rules will be released for viewing at the Federal Register Public Inspection Desk while they await official publication. HHS officials publicly released proposed criteria for meaningful use and an interim final rule on certification Dec. 30, but they were not published until Jan. 13.
With the rules at OMB, CMS can't give an exact date for release, but the Medicare and Medicaid agency stands by its forecast of early summer, according to Health Data Management. CMS had slipped from its earlier targets of late spring, then the end of June. FierceEMR reported last week that the final rules will be out by July 14, which is next Wednesday.
Read more: CMS: Final meaningful use, certification rules sent to OMB - FierceEMR http://www.fierceemr.com/story/cms-final-meaningful-use-certification-rules-sent-omb/2010-07-08#ixzz0tCkhOhI8
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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, eprescribe, 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
