FEATURED CONTENT

• How The New PQRI Will Affect Emergency Department Provider Documentation

  9/23/2009

  The Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) program instituted by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) has received changes for the 2008 calendar year. The PQRI program replaces the Physician Voluntary Reporting Program (PVRP) and involves all emergency care providers (i.e., physician assistants and nurse practitioners), not just physicians. CMS began collecting the PQRI data on July 1, 2007. Data reporting utilizes the CMS coding and billing infrastructure through the use of CPT Category II codes or in some instances G-codes. By T-System Inc.
• How To Improve Vaccination Education And Compliance Across Patient And Member Populations This Flu Season

  11/14/2019

  Influenza inflicts a considerable burden on the U.S. population, and the costs may grow as misplaced skepticism about the benefits of the flu vaccine continues to abound. Surprisingly, 40 percent of adults believe that the flu shot causes the flu. Regardless of why people did not get the vaccine, the flu costs the U.S. about $10.4 billion dollars per year in doctor’s appointments and hospitalizations for adults.

• 5 Tips For Safeguarding Data Security

  2/22/2017

  It looks like ensuring complete data security in healthcare may be more challenging this year. According to the Ponemon Institute’s Sixth Annual Benchmark Study on Privacy & Security of Healthcare Data, data breaches in the healthcare industry are continuing to grow in terms of volume, frequency, impact, and total cost. By Christopher Click, Sr. Healthcare Solutions Marketing Manager, Nuance Document Imaging

• What Hospitals Can Learn From Amazon, Southwest Airlines And Disney

  7/28/2017

  Achieving operational efficiency is as important to a hospital’s mission of providing the best care to the most people as it is to for-profit, customer-centric service organizations. Southwest Airlines, Amazon, and Walt Disney theme parks may seem as far removed from healthcare as one can imagine but, operationally, the tools, motivations, and management processes they incorporate are similar and have proven effective when applied to healthcare. Yet, even at some of the best-run hospitals, just a few understand and fully leverage these tools and procedures to optimize their operations.

• How HITRUST Gives Healthcare Organization Executives An Inherent Advantage

  10/5/2017

  Because healthcare organizations have a great deal of patients’ personal information, including credit card data, insurance details, and sensitive medical information, they are an appealing target for hackers. By Jenifer Rees, Principal Quality Engineering Consultant and Andrew Hosch, security and development groups, Base2 Solutions

• Shining A Light On Behind-The-Scenes Health IT

  10/2/2017

  National Health IT Week was created to raise awareness of how information technology (IT) helps improve health care delivery in America. This annual celebration is a time to reflect on the progress that has been made and to showcase how advances in health IT improve patient outcomes and quality of care. By Gavin Fabian, CEO of Casetabs