The AMA reports that new legislation is proposing to extend the eligibility for EMR incentives to include licensed psychologists and clinical social workers. The Health Information Technology Extension for Behavioral Health Services Act also would expand the Medicare hospital incentive to include inpatient psychiatric hospitals, and extend Medicaid hospital bonuses to community health centers, mental […]
EHR Electronic Health Records
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Physicians have long suspected that part of the reason that the government and the insurance industry are so gung-ho about EHR adoption is to keep a closer eye on health-care providers. And here is an example of just that. A Blue Cross Blue Shield provider (Highmark) is developing quality measures for its providers (internists, family […]
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A post on HealthAffairsBlog illustrates the case of a community in Delaware where the adoption of electronic medical records was spear-headed by the local hospital system, Christiana Care. But it also brings up three challenges that any community would have in trying to reach that same goal: How to we get everyone communicating on the […]
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Recently I wrote about a Harvard study that found evidence that physicians that use electronic medical records systems (EMRs) are less likely to be involved in a malpractice lawsuit. But regardless of whether your charts are better documented and therefore make you less of a target for a claim, does using EMR make you practice […]
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According to a study from Harvard University, physicians who use electronic medical records systems may be less likely to be sued. “When providers use electronic records in the outpatient setting, the likelihood of a paid malpractice settlement was about two-thirds as high,” said one of the lead authors, David Westfall Bates, MD, professor of medicine […]
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What is EMR?
Watch this video for a clear explanation of EMR – electronic medical records – and issues of implementation for medical practices.
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In part 1, we discussed just what is meant by a meaningful user and in part 2 we touched briefly on some of the changes made in the meaningful use rules from the proposed rules to the final rules. Whereas initially there was an 80% threshold that had to be met for pretty much every […]
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In part 1, we introduced the different stages of meaningful use criteria as defined by CMS in their final rules, released July 13, 2010. Many practices and hospitals breathed a collective sigh of relief on the one hand, as several criteria had thresholds that were less onerous than were originally proposed. It seems that CMS […]
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On Tuesday July 13, CMS released the final rule for adopting a certified electronic health record (EHR) system. After listing about 60 acronyms and abbreviations (and it’s impossible to remember them when reading the subsequent text), what follows is approximately 800 pages of proposals, related comments, and final rulings. All this is to spell out […]