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• Bridging The Digital Divide: Virtual Care Accessibility Options For Everyone

  3/23/2021

  This month marks one year since COVID-19 mushroomed across the planet and changed everything. For healthcare providers, the pandemic has been a major disruption that led to in-office safety protocols and created a chilling effect as patients refrained from scheduling the care they needed. Medical practices across the country resorted to reducing their hours or temporarily shuttering their offices. For many in the healthcare business, the reduction in appointments and closures precipitated revenue shortfalls of as much as 50 percent.

• What Physicians Need To Know For 2017

  1/11/2017

  These are exciting times for healthcare, with many forces at work shaping a new and hopefully better future for patients and physicians. By Dr. Robert Wah, Global Chief Medical Officer, CSC

• Quality Management System: Why It Matters And Its Impact On Patient Outcomes

  12/8/2017

  Our industry has begun to initiate another important phase in patient healthcare. The HITECH Act outlined the intended plans for the adoption of electronic health records through meaningful use. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) EHR Incentive programs have evolved into three stages of “Meaningful Use” with their own goals, priorities, and their own final rule. The last stage of the CMS Meaningful Use program, Stage 3, is on track to commence January 1, 2018. During this final phase the Quality Management System (QMS) specification, which was optional in Stage 2, will become a requirement.

• HIPAA 5010, ICD-10, HITECH/ARRA: Healthcare's Acronyms Spell Opportunity

  10/13/2010

  Capitalizing on recent legislative and regulatory mandates will require modifications to existing billing processes and systems as well as the adoption of new technologies. By Bill Carns, MBA, CMPE, CHBME, PracticeMax
• Guide For Integrating Preventive Healthcare Services: Payers, Patients, And Providers

  3/27/2019

  According to the Polsinelli-TrBK Distress Indices Report, 20 hospitals have filed for bankruptcy since 2016. Looking ahead through 2019, medical cost trends remain stable, but extremely high as healthcare costs continue to rise. HRI projects 2019’s medical cost trend to be 6 percent. This is consistent with the last five years, which have seen trends between 5.5 percent and 7 percent. By integrating preventative healthcare services, payers, patients and providers can all look forward to better results.

• New Mexico Hospital Battles Addiction With Health Information Technology Apps

  6/15/2018

  For many years Northwest New Mexico’s Gallup ranked number one nationally in the number of alcohol-related deaths. This reputation also killed many residents’ spirits, contributing to addiction, joblessness and homelessness, further highlighting the need for behavioral health care in this region. Native American youth have the highest rates of alcoholism of any racial group in the country, according to the National Institutes of Health.