A recent Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report titled “Not All Recommended Fraud Safeguards Have Been Implemented in Hospital EHR Technology” gave some...
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Physicians are beginning to understand and accept the value of allowing patients to see the majority of their health information, says a perspective piece in...
Federal officials have released a software patch to fix a flaw in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ VistA electronic health record (EHR system) that...
LeadingAge Ziegler 100 released the results of a study finding, “The majority of LZ 100 providers … are implementing EHRs/EMR technology (75.5 percent) and...
The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth I was driving through the mountains last Friday at sunset when my phone started ringing. Now I don’t like...
Learn about the three major themes driving the epatient trends that will forever change healthcare. Coauthor Fard Johnmar explains. It’s no secret that the...
Hospitals have an extra year before they have to prove that they can use electronic health records to improve patient outcomes, part of the meaningful-use...
The medical field traditionally has operated with a lot of behind-the-scenes jobs, but the advent of both electronic health records and the Affordable Care Act...
The questions are beginning to swirl around the announcement that Stage 2 and Stage 3 of Meaningful Use will be extended by a year. How will the delay affect...
Health and Human Services delayed implementation of ICD-10 codes until Oct. 1, 2014. That deadline is just a few months away and now is the time to establish a...
The Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) has selected Clearwater Compliance CEO and founder Bob Chaput, CISSP, CIPP/US, CHP, CHSS, to lead a webinar...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended the deadline for health care providers to meet Stage 2 meaningful use requirements for the...
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a new timeline to meet the requirements of its meaningful-use incentive program for...
Hospitals are employing safeguards to prevent electronic health record fraud and abuse to varying degrees, but must do more, according to a new report from the...













