One more reason it may be hard to find a primary care physician that will take Medicare, part of the issues lie with the new Medicare contractor for the area as well, big transition when getting data bases connected and data aligned. I have myself heard the same complaints from physicians offices...
This is a big problem in California, it is very difficult already to find physicians who will take Medicaid, thus the pay decrease will limit access even more and possibly the same with hospitals. With finally having a budget, healthcare facilities are now just starting to get checks as they were...
I hope my blog is no indication of this as when I look at the map to see readers geographically, the east coast as you can see from the screenshot is always loaded with readers compared to the west coast, although today it looked better than normal on the west coast. Perhaps this is just my blog...
More grant information can be found here. California working towards standardizing the information between electronic records and the HL7 format for labs. HL7 standards have the potential of following the same procedure and process to import lab results to a medical records. If all...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 09-23-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Other Items of Interest, healthcare, Medical Records, EHR, HL7, California, integration, Lab Results
The one item in particular requiring health insurers to devote 85 percent to medical care is something perhaps we all wonder about, where does the money go? We don't know as consumers, and when faced with a claim, were there funds directed to other areas that could be used to pay claims, big...
At a time like this, thank goodness there are private foundations such as the Hughes Medical Research Institute, as the funding for universities such as Stanford, University of California, Scripps, etc. appears to be in question and citizens all over the US benefit from the research done here in California...