CDW Healthcare has the results of another survey they conducted and this time it was about consumer trust and the use of electronic medical records. Back in December of 2010 they had another survey that asked about the use of electronic medical records by physicians. What is interesting too is...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on Tue, Feb 15 2011
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, My Commentaries, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, Health IT, Physicians, software, Hardware, Survey, Cost, stimulus money, meaningful use CDW
We are all working to make as much data as possible public but sometimes until we are ready for prime time it may not be in our best interests to display data that is riddled with errors until audits are done and a certain amount of credibility can be shown. I have been reading along a bit with...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on Tue, Oct 26 2010
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, My Commentaries, EMR, healthcare, medicare, EHR, Physicians, Claims, Fraud, Medical Claims, Non Profit, Algorithms, Contracts, Ingenix, healthcare reform, shareholders, United Heatlhcare
Everybody is using algorithmic formulas today to help them do their job better with less wasted efforts and drug reps can benefit too from the same formulas of evaluation. Let’s face it today in any industry, being in sales is getting to be tough job as everyone wants to absolutely define the direction...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on Thu, May 6 2010
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, privacy, health insurance, Physicians, Marketing, HHS, Algorithms, Department of Justice, Greed, drug reps, legal suit, Medicare claims
In short, this is a mess! There were 5 levels of consultations formerly and now they have been crashed in to 3 levels, so in plain English 2 are gone. What does this mean in particular for specialists billing, lower payment and hospitals too. With this article we now have conflicting...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on Sun, Feb 14 2010
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, My Commentaries, Hospital, health insurance, Physicians, medical billing, HHS, CMS, Medicare contractor, Algorithms, Laws, CPT Codes, healthcare reform, specialists, modifiers, Consultation codes