By Elizabeth S. Goar for For the Record Step inside several departments that have—in one form or another—survived the overwhelming trend toward outsourcing. It’s not breaking news to say that a significant majority of hospitals have outsourced their medical transcription departments to …
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Primary Care Doctors Spending 6 Hours Daily on EHR Data Entry
Updated healthcare.gov gets mixed reviews
From Boston.com article by Kelli Kennedy – December 3, 2013 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Counselors helping people use the federal government’s online health exchange are giving mixed reviews to the updated site, with some zipping through the application process while others …
Telemedicine consults may reduce errors at rural ERs
Reuters Health article by Genevra Pittman, Nov 25, 2013 Emergency rooms in rural areas don’t see many very sick or badly injured children each year. When they do, bringing in a pediatric critical care specialist by videoconference to help with treatment could …
ObamaCare will create healthcare jobs
Article by Ira E. Shapiro, The Hill blog, November 14, 2013 Despite the negative attention Obamacare has had recently, Obamacare will also help create many new jobs in the healthcare arena in our country due to the shortage of coders in the …
Is your doctor spying on your tweets? Social media raises medical privacy questions
Article by Art Caplan, Ph.D. NBC News, Oct. 21, 2013 A friend recently brought to my attention a disturbing question from a psychiatrist working with a transplant team: Should she be checking the sobriety claims of liver transplant candidates by looking on …
What everyone is getting wrong about Healthcare.gov
October 7, 2013 Washington Post Article by Tom Lee This Reuters article about Healthcare.gov has been getting some attention. Alas, it’s not very good, focusing on client-side optimizations that are probably unrelated to the federal health care Web site’s early woes. Healthcare.gov’s …
Struck by Turtle: Anticipating a New Healthcare-Billing System
From article on Atlantic.com by Richard Gunderman dated Sep 30 2013 T minus 12 months and counting until physicians and hospitals must comply with the federal government’s October 1, 2014 deadline to implement the ICD-10 system for classifying diseases. Developed by the …
Health law enrollment in US to see slow start next week
Article on Bloomberg.com By Alex Wayne & Alex Nussbaum – Sep 24, 2013 Enrollment in the Affordable Care Act’s public health exchanges, a key effort to reach people without health insurance, will start slowly, a senior Obama administration official said. While the …
Saving U.S. Health Care With Skype
Lawmakers and proponents of telemedicine have begun exploring how technology can improve the health care system in the wake of Obamacare Article by Maya Rhodan published in Time magazine’s Swampland The University of Virginia Health System is home to a program that …
