MACRA Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) is an Act that makes fundamental changes to the way Medicare payments…
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Modified Stage 2 for EHR Incentive Program
All the providers will need to take into account the new Final Rule released by CMS in October. Here’s all…
HIPAA Technical Safeguards
With OCR raising the seriousness levels of all covered entities in the healthcare Eco-system, it’s important for providers as well…
Consumer Driven Healthcare – How it stands for the Payers?
For the first time, many Americans are comparing and analyzing healthcare plans before buying one most suited to them. This…
How Clinical Data gains importance in the face of Incentive Payouts for Healthcare Payers?
Researchers at University of Washington Tacoma have developed a machine-learning predictive analytics tool that forecasts with 82 percent accuracy the…
An Introduction to Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS)
PQRS is an abbreviation for Physician Quality Reporting System formerly known as the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI). It is…
Wearable technology and EHR
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The mobile health monitoring space is a staggering USD 9 billion as of today, and is only getting bigger. Wearable…
Future of Healthcare: Personalized Medicine and Digital Health
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This is the first part to a series which will cover the role of healthcare IT in biotechnology and medical…
CAC Implementation for ICD-10
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Computer Assisted Coding or CAC has gained importance with the ICD-10 implementation road map underway at most healthcare providers. The…
Blue Button+: A guide for EMR/EHR/PHR ISV’s (Part 2)
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We had previously discussed the methodology for Bluebutton+ to access data in the EMR/EHR/PHR system in the first part of…
Blue Button+: A guide for EMR/EHR/PHR ISVs (part 1)
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What do you need to know about the Blue Button+? The Blue Button initiative started in 2010, to empower…
What do we mean that ICD-10 is more specific?
While there are dozens of minor distinctions between ICD-9 and ICD-10 the three fundamental changes are: There is expanded detail…