Posted by Jason Greis on August 24, 2010 under Articles | 
The federal government pays more than 40% of all money spent on healthcare in the U.S. and it is focused like never before on managing those costs. Along with reducing already low reimbursement levels, CMS will look to two primary means for cost reduction–utilization and admissions review and reimbursements tied to outcomes. For post-acute care facilities this translates into a single imperative – “admitting the appropriate patient”. Read More...
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Posted by Jason Greis on December 8, 2008 under Articles |
An increasing number of hospitals and other health care facilities are providing physicians with access to software and other assistance relating to the implementation of electronic health records (“EHR”) systems. These entities which are considered covered entities by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”), find it difficult to reconcile the open access of many EHR systems to the HIPAA obligations of a covered entity to secure and to protect the confidentiality of protected health information (“PHI”). HIPAA regulations require that covered entities implement administrative, physical and technical safeguards that reasonably and appropriately protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the electronic PHI that it creates, receives, maintains, or transmits. This article provides guidelines to assist hospitals and health care facilities who provide EHR technology to physicians or certain of their representatives on how to incorporate EHR systems with the HIPAA requirements. Read More...
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