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Articles By angela martin
Going Paper- Free-the Emr Way
By: angela martin
To going paper-free and saving the environment is on the cards, the healthcare IT industry has taken in the mantra too seriously by converting from paper medical records to EMR - electronic medical records.(read
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30 Suspects Booked For Alleged Medicare Fraud
By: angela martin
On a recent OIG report that the high number of outlier payments for diabetic Medicare benes in Miami-Dade area, federal agents on December 15 put behind bars some 30 suspects in three states for alleged Medicare fraud totaling $61million.(read
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Oig Reports For Home Health Outlier Payments
By: angela martin
Medicare officials suspect kickbacks to physicians, beneficiaries on home health outlier payments in Mami-Dade country.(read
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Therapists Can Help Curb Hospital Readmissions
By: angela martin
Reducing hospital readmissions should be your top priority what with your patient outcomes and even survey results on the line. And curbing readmits will become all the more important with pay for performance expected soon.(read
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Advocating Or Discouraging Data Mining?
By: angela martin
Most of the hospitals and medical centers are spending their funds to get acquainted and prepared to conquer the ready-to-go live electronic medical records system. But with this new inclusion comes the threat of a new intrusion in the form of data security.(read
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Hhas And 10 Percent Outlier Cap: Minimize The Risk
By: angela martin
There are tough times ahead for home health agencies affected by the 10 percent outlier cap. Here’s how you can lessen the policy’s impact on your agency.(read
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Oasis C Knocking: Are You Geared Up For It?
By: angela martin
All the home health agencies wishing for a Christmas miracle of delayed OASIS C implementation are in for some disappointment as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is going ahead with the January 1 implementation of OASIS C.(read
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End Of Life Care: Black Versus White Patients
By: angela martin
It is been observed that black cancer patients are not given as much attention as their white counterparts when it comes to end of life care. According to a new study black cancer patients’ end-of-life treatment preferences were followed less frequently than their white counterparts.(read
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Gear Up For A Tough Ride With Security Breaches
By: angela martin
With consummation of IT with healthcare, security breaches are followed for the risks the medical identify of the patients which sometimes may result in insurance and non-payment grievances to the existing privacy and security concerns in healthcare business.(read
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Cms Proves Its Critics Wrong: Proposed Rule Implementing Hitech Act Is Here
By: angela martin
CMS would release rules implementing the health information technology systems for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) act in December 2009, deadline for a proposed rule implementing the HITECH Act in healthcare organizations.(read
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