Posted by
Ellen Bzomowski
on Apr 19, 2016 1:28:51 PM
I chose the title for this blog a bit tongue in cheek. You see, there are numerous blog posts about how to “properly” redact PDF files. While all of those other blog posts correctly explain the challenges that makes redacting PDF files difficult and outline all of the steps that one must take to ensure private information is completely and irreversibly redacted, all of those blog posts fail to mention one critical idea that anyone tasked with the important job of redacting electronic documents should be aware of -- automation.
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Posted by
Ellen Bzomowski
on Apr 14, 2016 6:00:00 AM
Last week at a healthcare trade event, a director of a top program (I’ll call her Sandy – not her real name.) witnessed something so shocking that it nearly brought her to tears...of joy.
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Posted by
Dr. John Daller, MD, PhD, FACS
on Mar 28, 2016 8:51:09 AM
Today, we will continue our discussion about the System Improvement Agreement (SIA) and the various deliverables that will be required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to emerge successfully.
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Posted by
Dr. John Daller, MD, PhD, FACS
on Mar 8, 2016 8:32:08 AM
In our last blog, we spoke about the initial steps that you must take after you have entered the System Improvement Agreement (SIA) with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Today, we will discuss the Independent Peer Review Team (IPRT) and the action plan that will be developed and implemented following their visit.
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Posted by
David Rasmussen
on Mar 3, 2016 5:00:00 AM
When you get to the office in the morning, is there a backlog of lab results waiting to be entered in patients’ electronic medical records for you and your team? If so, then read on…
Were you thinking of the word dread? Or how about, “I hate it when…
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Posted by
Dr. John Daller, MD, PhD, FACS
on Mar 1, 2016 5:00:00 AM
Previously we have discussed in general what happens when your center comes under regulatory scrutiny and what you can expect. Today, we will begin to look in greater detail at what a System Improvement Agreement (SIA) entails, the items that the hospital commits to fulfill and some strategies for addressing them.
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Posted by
Joseph Smith
on Feb 23, 2016 10:50:45 AM
30 years ago, a fax machine, an eight-track tape player and a pager walk into a doctor’s office looking for a job. Which one of them is still working in that medical office today? Why, the fax machine of course!
Even with the move to electronic health records, healthcare organizations rely on faxing as the least common denominator for exchanging health information.
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Posted by
Dr. John Daller, MD, PhD, FACS
on Feb 17, 2016 6:00:00 PM
The System Improvement Agreement (SIA)
In our previous post, we discussed what happens when your program receives a letter from either the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) or the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and your program's initial response. Today we will focus on what happens if CMS does not accept your mitigating factors application.
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Posted by
David Rasmussen
on Feb 16, 2016 6:00:00 AM
I recently spent three days driving across the northern Midwestern States and through a good part of Canada with a longtime friend as we headed to a once-in-a-lifetime wilderness adventure. As you might imagine our conversations spanning those 72 hours took as many twists and turns as did the roads we traveled. However, one saying my friend repeated several times stood out among many insightful remarks he’d made, “Your judgement is only as good as your information.“
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Posted by
Greg Gies
on Feb 11, 2016 9:43:42 AM
Despite massive adoption of electronic medical records over the past several years, the promise of easy and nearly effortless chart abstraction from electronic medical records enabled by an interconnected web of interoperable EMRs sharing standardized data has yet to be fully realized. You need to look no further than the media tab to see the evidence that we have yet to arrive at this utopian future.
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