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Bill Clinton’s public health, cost-bending message thrills health IT folks at HIMSS

Published Fri, Mar 03 2013 5:30 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: Medicare, reduce costs, Return on Investment, Health IT, HIMSS, Social Media, Patient Engagement, Health Populi, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Care Quality, Health Care Reform, Obesity, mobile health, People in healthcare, smoking, Health care professionals, mHealth, Blue Button, Technology in healthcare, wireless health, Payment, Clinton Global Initiative, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, Medicine: wellness & disease, Bill Clinton, transparency, Change Management, Genes & genomics, health outcomes, crowdfunding, Low income healthcare recipients, PRIVATE SECTOR, cost-effective, genome sequencing, Triple Aim, lower health spending, bipartisan, healthcare and economy, access to medical care
Trickle Up Economics

Published Wed, Mar 03 2013 6:30 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: Medicare, Health insurance, electronic health records, ACOs, Primary Care, Accountable Care Act, People in healthcare, Innovation/innovative companies, Payment, Small business, Medicine: wellness & disease, Change Management, Rob Lamberts, high deductible plans, health care costs, specialists, hospital billing practices, Musings of a Distractible Mind
Required reading: TIME Magazine’s Bitter Pill Cover Story

Published Thu, Feb 02 2013 9:00 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: Medicare, doctors, Health insurance, Physicians, hospitals, Health reform, Health Populi, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Medical device, Health care & health policy, HEALTH CONSUMERS, HEALTH ECONOMICS, HEALTH MARKETING, HEALTH POLITICS, MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY, HOSPITAL FINANCE, HEALTH CARE MARKETING, CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH, MONEY AND HEALTH, FINANCIAL HEALTH
Preparing to Be Surveyor Ready Always? 10 Steps to Success

Educate clinicians to document for clear reading, substantive support for Coding, and to support reimbursement. Expect QA team members to verify 10 key elements that can lead to successful surveys. Documentation Documentation Documentation is the key...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2013 4:29 PM by Select Data

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, Home Health, CMS Guidelines, Documentation, caregivers, Appropriate and Timely Communication, Medicare Benefits Manual, Change of Condition, Patient and Caregiver Teaching, Documentation of Wounds, Conditions for Coverage of Home Health Services, Home Visit Documentation, Documenation, Qualifying Home Health Plan, Total Body Assessments, Timely Interventions
Pay for Performance – Coming Soon to a Practice Near You

“Pay for Performance” is not a new catch phrase in the healthcare community, but it is one that has seen a recent spike in interest from the general public and healthcare world alike. The renewed interest is due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and initiatives...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2013 11:00 AM by EHR Bloggers

Filed under: Medicare, Public Health, Health Policy, P4P, PQRS
ACO Here, ACO There, ACO Everywhere & Vendor Response

No In less than two years we have gone from Accountable Care Organization (ACO) as a concept, to ACO as a new model of care delivery. With the January announcement that there were 106 more added to the Medicare ACO program, we now have 254 ACOs nationwide. read more Read More...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2013 8:58 AM by Latest Blog Entries for heathcareitnews.com

Filed under: Medicare, Industry News, electronic health records, Policy and Legislation, Network Infrastructure, Leavitt Partners, David Muhlestein
Lessons from the passage of Medicare

Published Mon, Feb 02 2013 7:00 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: Medicare, Healthcare, Policy, Common Sense Family Doctor, Kenny Lin, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy
RWJ Forum on Reducing Readmissions: “Hospital Discharge is Tipping Point”

In the increasingly hot-button realm of reducing avoidable Medicare rehospitalizations, the handoff from hospital to home has become the tipping point, agreed expert panelists at this week's Care About Your Care forum presented by the Robert Wood...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2013 4:00 PM by Healthcare Intelligence Network

Filed under: Medicare, Uncategorized, Compliance, healthcare reform, Affordable Care Act, Case Management, Reducing Readmissions, Hospital Readmissions, Transitions in Care, patient satisfaction, Population Health Management, care transitions
On the Journey to Effective Clinical Quality Management: Expect a Bumpy Ride

No Improving the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare is a national priority. While clinical quality measures have been around for some time, they are now taking center stage through federal, state and commercial quality/pay for performance (P4P) initiatives. read more Read More...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2013 10:33 AM by Latest Blog Entries for heathcareitnews.com

Filed under: Medicare, Industry News, Business Intelligence, Quality and Safety, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program
Is Healthcare Getting the Most from Quality Improvement Organizations?

Hospitalizations and readmissions were reduced by at least 6 percent in areas of the country where quality improvement organizations (QIOs) made concerted efforts to improve care transitions from hospitals to the home or other post-acute facilities, according...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2013 11:16 AM by Healthcare Intelligence Network

Filed under: Medicare, accountable care organizations, Avoidable ER Use, Hospital Readmissions, Transitions in Care, quality improvement, QIO, quality improvement organization
It’s the System, Stupid: Reversing the Law of Unintended Consequences

Published Sat, Feb 02 2013 4:00 PM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: Medicare, Policy, Health costs, Government, Health care & health policy, Medsphere, Edmund Billings
Who Is Insured or Not Insured by Government?

Published Fri, Feb 02 2013 11:00 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: Medicare, Healthcare, Politics, Health care professionals, Budget, Politics & public policy, The Government We Deserve, Gene Steuerle
More Than Half of Americans Favor State Insurance Exchanges; Lawmakers Split Along Party Lines

On the heels of the inauguration, a new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health reports that while lawmakers are split along party lines about the creation of state-based health...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2013 12:52 PM by Healthcare Intelligence Network

Filed under: Medicare, Medicaid, Affordable Care Act, care coordination, Case Management, Bundled Payments
Health care cost illiteracy: consumers feel the pinch of growing costs, but don’t understand the “why?”

Published Tue, Feb 02 2013 3:00 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: Medicare, Health insurance, Health Populi, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Aging, Health literacy, Health care & health policy, Aging, anti-aging & longevity, HEALTH CONSUMERS, HEALTH ECONOMICS, Baby boomers and health, FINANCIAL HEALTH
1 Out of 3 Patients Hospitalized for Heart Conditions, Pneumonia Readmitted Within 15 Days

Almost 3 million Medicare patients hospitalized for heart failure (HF), heart attack, or pneumonia were readmitted to the hospital within 30 days, and almost two-thirds were readmitted within 15 days, according to a study from Columbia University Medical...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2013 12:35 PM by Healthcare Intelligence Network

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, Hospital Readmissions, chronic disease, hospital readmission penalties

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