Figures don’t lie but liars figure! If it isn’t attributable to an aging population and they clearly have no desire to pay providers in any reasonable way, the only thing left is utilization which, like private payers, they have the ability to influence.
FULL STORY / PUBLISHED: December 19, 2008 / ACCESS: MODERNPHYSICIAN
While I have not done a study on the Medicaid population, the total number of people who qualify for Medicare will increase dramatically over the next several years.
FULL STORY / PUBLISHED: December 18, 2008 / ACCESS: MODERNPHYSICIAN
If there is a significant penalty for not taking the time to ensure you are doing the correct procedure on the correct patient, then maybe we would see less surgical errors.
FULL STORY / PUBLISHED: December 05, 2008 / ACCESS: MODERNPHYSICIAN
Pediatricians need to be better compensated for the work they do in preventing emergency department visits. There is no incentive to remain open late or on weekends to see patients, and these are the times that children show up in the ED.
FULL STORY / PUBLISHED: November 24, 2008 / ACCESS: MODERNPHYSICIAN
Physicians should be allowed to write off from their corporate taxes the unpaid Medicaid (or any uninsured patients) charges as bad debt. In this way, providers would be encouraged to care for the poor.
FULL STORY / PUBLISHED: November 21, 2008 / ACCESS: MODERNPHYSICIAN
I think the $21 billion is underestimated because it is so tough to quantify the savings unless one is spinning in the middle of the technology spiral now going on.
FULL STORY / PUBLISHED: November 17, 2008 / ACCESS: MODERNPHYSICIAN
To save $21 billion annually, where will the savings come from? How may layoffs? It’s these—30 minutes per person per day saving calculations—that scare me.
FULL STORY / PUBLISHED: November 13, 2008 / ACCESS: MODERNPHYSICIAN
Why is Modern Physician allowing someone to still take potshots at Sen. John McCain? The man can't use a computer because of his war injuries. He would have also supported information technology just as President-elect Barack Obama is going to do.
FULL STORY / PUBLISHED: November 13, 2008 / ACCESS: MODERNPHYSICIAN
Being ideologically committed to populism, they will not be able to tell the people what they will have to hear and accept to make any improvement in our healthcare “system.”
FULL STORY / PUBLISHED: November 12, 2008 / ACCESS: MODERNPHYSICIAN
I would argue that not only is Obama prepared to deal with healthcare and other issues, but he is uniquely qualified, based on background, values, temperament and capabilities.
FULL STORY / PUBLISHED: November 11, 2008 / ACCESS: MODERNPHYSICIAN
Obama has been accused of a lack of experience, yet no one was probably less prepared than George W. Bush for the presidency, yet he was re-elected despite poor performance.
FULL STORY / PUBLISHED: November 07, 2008 / ACCESS: MODERNPHYSICIAN
The only thing missing in either presidential campaign is “experience.” We were forced to vote for the “best of the worst” and, in such a situation, no one wins.
FULL STORY / PUBLISHED: November 06, 2008 / ACCESS: MODERNPHYSICIAN
The idea of using incentives to encourage use of e-prescribing and the adoption of electronic health records is certainly one way to increase the use of more effective and efficient technology into the healthcare arena.
FULL STORY / PUBLISHED: October 31, 2008 / ACCESS: MODERNPHYSICIAN
I read with great interest the commentary by my friend and colleague Linda Kloss, chief executive officer of the American Health Information Management Association.
FULL STORY / PUBLISHED: October 27, 2008 / ACCESS: MODERNPHYSICIAN
Ryan Levacy's comments are interesting, and illustrate the problem that salesmen of electronic health-record systems have—they aren't doctors, and damn sure not busy doctors.
FULL STORY / PUBLISHED: October 24, 2008 / ACCESS: MODERNPHYSICIAN
I am very concerned that AHIMA has endorsed going forward with ICD-10 because the largest impact that has not been discussed (to my knowledge) is the impact on documentation in electronic health records and the massive reworking that will be required to make EHRs compliant with ICD-10.
FULL STORY / PUBLISHED: October 16, 2008 / ACCESS: MODERNPHYSICIAN
To be honest, the writer is one of the reasons for the slow adoption rate of electronic health records. Frankly, his attitude is the major problem. He states that the EHR did not save him time, money, paper, etc.
FULL STORY / PUBLISHED: October 14, 2008 / ACCESS: MODERNPHYSICIAN
I agree with Gary Dickinson’s comments. I have been reading through some of the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel's interoperability standards and support documents posted on their Web site and find them hopelessly obtuse.
FULL STORY / PUBLISHED: October 13, 2008 / ACCESS: MODERNPHYSICIAN
