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Healthcare Reform Technology Tips for Payers, Providers
The healthcare industry is focused on building a new technology foundation for a new performance based delivery system—with real time information exchange and processing at its core. While no one can predict the specific technology feature/function set that will be required by healthcare payers in 2015, there are some technology mandates of the future market that are predictable given what we know today. They include the realtime integrated processing of all healthcare business transactions, similar to the point-of-sale (POS) processing enjoyed in the pharmacy line of business for more than 25 years. The healthcare market is aimed at lowering costs through improved care and outcomes. To accomplish this, an electronic, interoperable, integrated delivery system is necessary in order to achieve optimal performance.
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OCR Patient Data Breach List Hits Milestone
The number of entities reporting breaches of unsecured protected health information (PHI) affecting 500 or more individuals has hit 225. The web site was born out of HITECH and has been live since February 2010. OCR says the breach reports date back to September 2009. Hence, it's been about 17 months since OCR has accepted the reports. It amounts to about 13 reports filed per month, or 0.44 per day.
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Health Net Fined $55K for Data Breach
Another state attorney general is using new enforcement powers granted by HITECH—again, at the expense of Health Net, Inc. The insurance giant has been fined by the state of Vermont over the insurer's loss of a portable disk drive that exposed the protected health information (PHI) of 1.5 million people, including 525 Vermont residents. This is the second HIPAA enforcement action of its kind since HITECH in February 2009 granted state attorneys general HIPAA enforcement authority.
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Insurers are scouring social media for evidence of fraud
Social-networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace have become the go-to places where employers, college admissions officers and divorce lawyers can do background checks. And now insurance companies are exploiting the free, easily accessible websites, according to this Los Angeles Times article. Such sites have become the latest tools in detecting fraud, which the industry says costs the U.S. as much as $80 billion a year and accounts for 3% to 10% of total annual healthcare spending. Investigators who once followed people with cameras now sit behind desks mining databases and searching Facebook.
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Audio conference: Under IRS Scrutiny: Ensuring Compliant Hospital-Physician Compensation Plans
As hospitals and physician practices continue merging for survival, hospital-physician integration is of growing interest to the IRS and is increasingly subject to scrutiny from regulators. Additionally, the new Form 990 disclosure requirements related to highly paid officers or employees have created an easily accessible public format for viewing executive compensation. Join HealthLeaders Media on February 16, 1 p.m. (EST), for this 60-minute audio conference, including Q&A, to get the analysis and strategies you need for current tax law requirements. [Read More]
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Tech Headlines
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CCHIT launches alternative EHR certification
InformationWeek, January 21, 2011
New CPR devices save lives, Medical College study finds
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, January 19, 2011
Medical records technology helps with drug recall
The Monitor, January 18, 2011
FDA plans modest changes to medical device system
The Boston Globe/Associated Press, January 20, 2011
6 Hospital Tips to Survive Healthcare Reform
HealthLeaders Media, January 21, 2011
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Feb. 15: Cardiac Care Leadership for Improved Alignment and Outcomes
Jan. 25: The Power of Primary Care in an Era of Change
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Improving Head and Neck Cancer Outcomes Head and neck cancer afflicts relatively few, but it is described as one of the most devastating because of its impact on speech, swallowing, and facial structures.
By establishing multidisciplinary approaches and minimally invasive techniques, hospitals are improving patient outcomes and their own bottom lines.[Read More]
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IT Forum
Medical Device Makers: Stop Griping and Embrace Healthcare Reform: During the national healthcare reform debate, many in the medical device industry strenuously objected to contributing their "fair share" to reform through a new tax on their devices. While other healthcare stakeholders accepted the notion of shared sacrifice and agreed to give up collective hundreds of billions of dollars, device companies warned that a new tax would force them to pass on the additional cost to hospitals and patients. And the protests haven't stopped. [Read More] |
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Audio Feature
Building Blocks of the Patient Experience
The healthcare system is on the cusp of accepting the positive influence of patient experience on quality, says Steve Ronstrom, president and CEO of Hospital Sisters Health System Division and CEO of Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire, WI. In a recent interview, the lead advisor for the HealthLeaders Media Intelligence Report, Patient Experience: Help Wanted, explains how basics such as infrastructure and technology combined with the people skills of empathy and caring can improve outcomes. [Listen Now][Sponsored by Medseek] |
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