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Los Angeles REC Center (Medical Records Assistance) is Open for Business HITEC-LA

I try to keep some updates on what’s happening at the ONC created REC centers across the US and everyone is a little different being they are a private enterprise coordinating to help physicians and medical businesses with converting and setting up electronic...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2011 2:19 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Training, Medical Records, medicare, EHR, PHR, Medicaid, Los Angeles, Vendors, Meaningful Use, non profits, ONC, stimulus money, REC, members, licensing

CDC Awards Grant to Connect Hospital Labs to Exchange Test Results and Patient Information Using SureScripts Direct

It looks like the SureScripts network for secure data transmission is going to get a little more business with the latest grant as last week the American Academy of Family Physicians announced their program for $15 by subscription for physicians to securely...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 9:59 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Hospital, Labs, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, Pathology, CDC, Meaningful Use, Surescripts, results, College of American Pathologists, America Hospital Association, secure transmission

Northrop Grumman Debuts the National Health Data Data Base Repository From the Contract Awarded Last Year

The contract was announced last May, 2010, a contract worth $34 million. There are some good things happening here, like the comparison of duplicate payments and some potential fraud analysis. CMS Outsourcing Creation of “Meaningful Use” Database...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 1:23 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, health insurance, data bases, CMS, Doctors, Outsourcing, Data, Meaningful Use, infrastructure, Northrop Grumman, contractors

David Blumenthal, M.D To Step Down As National Coordinator, Health Information Technology In the Spring

The article states that he will be returning to Harvard and this is a tough job to say the least. All over HHS new responsibilities are delving deeper into the actual need to have some hands on experience to help make sense in figuring out what...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2011 2:22 AM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, health insurance, Health IT, Medicaid, HHS, Code, Data, Algorithms, children, stimulus, data systems, Meaningful Use, Blumenthal, ONC, bugets, CIOs, bubble

Extormity Giving Away iPad for Most Compelling Case Study Of An EHR Vendor Annoyance/Frustration Story at HIMSS

You have one week from today to get your entry in! I like these folks as they make us all laugh at ourselves and bring us back to earth when it comes to electronic medical records. We have had many in positions to where they see one side...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2011 3:07 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Need a Laugh, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, Humor, Spoof, Meaningful Use, billing, Extormity, Seedie, ONC, IPad, Upcoding

Insurers Made $450 Million with Interest Income by Holding Medicare Funds for Around 46 Days Before Releasing Payment

One more finding from the Office of the Inspector General on how profits are being made and the 2 sides here conflict as far as if this would actually show a savings for Medicare if the time were slimmed down. The irritation I think is more of the...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2011 8:43 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, EMR, medicare, EHR, Claims, HHS, CMS, Non Profit, Algorithms, incentives, Wellpoint, Contracts, healthcare reform, Meaningful Use, shareholders, OIG, Office of the Inspector General

Extormity EHR Testimony at Health IT Hearing (Spoof-Video)

The Extormity folks have outdone themselves this time! We actually have live video content here….we have to laugh, as the trail to establishing electronic medical records has been one of many faces…. and no matter what side of the fence you are...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2011 12:31 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Other Items of Interest, Need a Laugh, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, Humor, Spoof, Meaningful Use, billing, Extormity, Seedie, ONC, Upcoding

Resources from ONC and CMS About Meaningful Use–Curated at the Website

Have you not found enough information yet? If you haven’t, well this is the place for you on Meaningful Use. I have a hard enough time curating this information for the Medical Quack and I can’t imagine how providers and hospitals are doing...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2011 2:19 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, health insurance, Health IT, Medicaid, HHS, Code, Data, Algorithms, children, stimulus, data systems, Meaningful Use, ONC, bugets, CIOs, bubble

Office of Inspector General to Monitor Upgrade of CMS Computer and Data Systems and Stimulus Incentives for EHRs

Back in August a Medicare contractor, a wholly owned subsidiary of WellPoint, National Government Services received a contract to monitor Physician Incentive payments . If you are a provider, this is the data systems under CMS that will check and...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2010 6:39 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, EMR, medicare, EHR, Claims, HHS, CMS, Non Profit, Algorithms, incentives, Wellpoint, Contracts, healthcare reform, Meaningful Use, shareholders, OIG, Office of the Inspector General

NIIT Technologies From India Via Platform Acquisition Enters Into the World of ARRA and Medical Record Sharing-There’s Big Money In Those Algorithms!

The article states this is a “cloud” based service and is setting up operations in Florida where the data platform was developed. Where is the cloud going to be, here or India? That’s not an out of the way question today and one we should...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2010 2:53 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, health insurance, Physicians, HealthIT, Heatlhcare, HIE, collaboration, Meaningful Use, ARRA, transactions, NIIT Technologies

The North Pole Implements Extormity EHR Just in Time for Christmas

As with any EHR medical records system, productivity does reduce during the learning curve and the Santa EHR is no exception and they can only see 2 pint size patients a day! This definitely is putting the toy delivery behind schedule as the elves...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2010 6:04 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Need a Laugh, Medical Records, EHR, Personal Health Records, Humor, Spoof, Meaningful Use, billing, Extormity, Seedie, ONC, Upcoding, death panels

Registration for EHR Incentive Program To Register for Stimulus Money Opens Jan 3rd

This is a date and page to put into memory as if you have invested in a certified EHR system and have demonstrated meaningful use, get your money, or rather sign up with the intentions of wanting to get your money. I wonder if this is the...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2010 6:06 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, health insurance, data bases, CMS, Doctors, Outsourcing, Data, Meaningful Use, infrastructure, Northrop Grumman, contractors

ONC To Sponsor Open Community for Developers to Create Solutions That Hinder Meaningful Use With Medical Record-Try That New Left Curve Technology Gives Us Daily

There may be some good ideas to come from such meetings, but the over all factor that drives everyone nuts is the technology itself. Just when you think you have a solution designed that will hold everyone at bay and have use for a period of time...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2010 7:30 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, healthcare, Medical Records, Health IT, PHR, Hospitals, Personal Health Records, information, Data, collaboration, Meaningful Use, think tanks, ONC, ACO, CIOs, accountable care organzations

ONC Adds 2 New Certification Organizations to the List for EHRs and Meaningful Use

Only a year ago we had one and now we have five so perhaps this gives some new meaning to the number of software applications out there for medical records. There’s many and maybe too many. BD The Office of the National Coordinator for...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2010 2:32 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Medical Records, EHR, software, Meaningful Use, ONC, certifcation

Extormity Introduces A Death Panel Module For the Algorithmically Challenged IT Illiterate Crowd And Is “Seedie Certified” (Humor)

They need to send this module over to Arizona to get those folks up to date and schooled on how to use reporting and formulas, aka those algorithms to make intelligent decisions. Back to the humor side here, the program will automatically select...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2010 2:18 PM by The Medical Quack

Filed under: Other Items of Interest, Need a Laugh, Medical Records, EHR, Humor, Spoof, Meaningful Use, billing, Extormity, Seedie, ONC, Upcoding, death panels

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