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Put the CIOs in charge, patient advocate says
By Joseph Conn | October 11, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Chief information officers aren't running their healthcare organizations, but maybe they should, says Jamie Heywood, chairman and co-founder of PatientsLikeMe.
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Some still arguing for a national patient identifier
By Joseph Conn | October 11, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Who's still stumping for a national patient identifier? “I want an identifier,” said Joey Sudomir, CIO at Texas Health Partners, Arlington, and Bill Spooner is right there with him.
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Money-losing system says 'no' to accountable care—for now
By Merrill Goozner | October 11, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Earlier this year, Allegiance Health in Jackson County, Mich., began investigating whether to join Medicare's shared-savings program after seeing it was losing patients to neighboring counties.
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Live@CHIME: CHIME CEO Russell Branzell (6:22)
By Modern Healthcare | October 11, 2013
Russell Branzell, the new president and CEO of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, told the 750 chief information officers gathered in Scottsdale, Ariz., for CHIME's annual fall forum that the health IT industry will face numerous challenges over the next year. The former CIO at Poudre Valley and University of Colorado healthcare systems described the difficulties CIOs...
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Live@CHIME: Methodist Health System's Pamela McNutt (4:47)
By Modern Healthcare | October 11, 2013
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives laid out an ambitious lobbying agenda to the 750 members gathered Oct. 8-11 in Scottsdale, Ariz., for the group's annual 2013 fall forum. Pamela McNutt, a member of CHIME's policy steering committee and CIO of Methodist Health Systems in Dallas, told Modern Healthcare editor Merrill Goozner that high on that agenda would be convincing...
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Mostashari shares concerns, 'insider clues' in first speech since leaving ONC
By Joseph Conn | October 10, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Dr. Farzad Mostashari didn't quite bare his soul to a bunch of hospital CIOs, but the man who was indefatigably buoyant as the nation's federal health information technology czar did pull back the curtain a bit and offered an assessment of his own concerns as well as some "insider clues" in his first speech since leaving federal service.
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Live@CHIME: CIOs face training challenges as ICD-10 nears (2:05)
By Modern Healthcare | October 10, 2013
The start date for the modernization of the coding system that healthcare systems and physician offices use for everything from billing to population health management is now less than a year away. To get ready for ICD-10, thousands of coders and physicians must be retrained. Modern Healthcare editor Merrill Goozner reports from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives' Fall...
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Live@CHIME: Incoming CHIME Board Chairman Randy McCleese (7:06)
By Modern Healthcare | October 10, 2013
The choice for the next chairman of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives represents a major new programming thrust for CHIME -- how to help small and mid-sized hospitals ramp up their efforts in deploying the latest information technologies to achieve the next phase in meaningful use payments. Randy McCleese, the CIO of St. Clair Regional Medical Center in Moorehead, Ky.,...
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CIOs seek consensus on record ID and consent management
By Joseph Conn | October 10, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Some healthcare CIOs hope to create a platform for dialogue and to create consensus around two sensitive privacy issues—patient record identification and consent management.
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Video games ease patients' pain
By Merrill Goozner | October 10, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Hospital officials looking to improve drug compliance or help patients with pain management might consider including video games in their armamentarium.
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Live@CHIME: CHIME Board Chairman George Hickman (11:45)
By Modern Healthcare | October 09, 2013
Being a top information officer at a hospital or physician practice these days requires juggling skills. Should a system's scarce capital for information technology be funneled into achieving the next stage of interoperability to maintain government incentive payments or would it be better deployed in retraining coding staff for the arrival of ICD-10, the medical coding system that goes live in...
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IT leaders outline EHR payment audit pitfalls
By Joseph Conn | October 09, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Detailed record-keeping is essential to surviving an EHR incentive payment audit and it's doubly important with Stage 2 meaningful use and ICD-10, IT leaders like Pam McNutt say.
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Commentary: CHIME applauds lawmakers' support of health IT
By Russell Branzell | October 09, 2013
While Congress focuses on the budget impasse, there's also acknowledgement that healthcare IT will play a key role in improving our healthcare system, according to CHIME's president and CEO.
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Hickman comes out singing, draws record crowd
By Joseph Conn | October 09, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
As expected, outgoing CHIME board Chairman George Hickman made an appearance at CHIME's opening keynote session. Unexpectedly, he came out singing.
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Data breaches are 'inevitable,' so prepare now, CIOs told
By Joseph Conn | October 09, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The bad news is, if your healthcare organization hasn't yet had a privacy and security breach hit the media, it probably will, consultant Steven Bennett says.
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Live@CHIME Preview Video
By Modern Healthcare | October 08, 2013
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives' 2013 Fall CIO Forum kicks off Oct. 8 and runs through Oct. 11 in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Modern Healthcare Editor Merrill Goozner and health IT reporter Joseph Conn will be covering it with stories and video interviews at Live@CHIME. For a preview of our coverage, click on the video below.
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Video News: More bad debt ahead? (5:31)
By Modern Healthcare | June 27, 2013
As patients take responsibility for a greater share of their medical costs, bad debt is expected to mount as more bills go unpaid. Modern Healthcare finance reporter Beth Kutscher discusses the issue with Thomas Yoesle, COO for revenue cycle at Orlando (Fla.) Health; Bret Kelsey, chief revenue officer at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, Calif.; and Joseph Fifer, president and CEO of...
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Video News: Live@HFMA 2013 Conference Wrap (1:22)
By Modern Healthcare | June 19, 2013
Modern Healthcare News Editor Gregg Blesch recaps the four days of the Healthcare Financial Management Association's 2013 National Institute in Orlando, Fla.
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HFMA looks at solutions to patients' medical-debt burdens
By Gregg Blesch | June 19, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Faced with the prospect of Congress and regulators stepping in to do it for them, the Healthcare Financial Management Association is crafting new standards for the delicate matter of medical debt.
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'It's going to get worse,' consultant tells providers
By Beth Kutscher | June 19, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The message: Volumes under reform will be lower than expected, but additional Medicare cuts are all but assured.
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