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House Approves Medicare SGR
On March 26th the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation (with a 392-37 vote) to permanently replace the Medicare sustainable growth rate formula and reimbursement mechanism. The senate did...
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NJ Doctors Received 109% increase under Obamacare but Were Still Reluctant to...
Ranking well below the national average of 69%, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report show that only 38.7% of New Jersey doctors are accepting new Medicaid patients in 2013, making...
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Report Shows 25% of Small Practices Feel Stuck with Current EMR
If you are unhappy with your EMR, you are not alone. A recent report from a study of over 750 small practices (practice with 1-10 physicians) performed by KLAS shows that a quarter of these practices...
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Data Breach at Three Hospitals in Bergen County NJ
The Valley Hospital, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, and Holy Name Medical Center all use Medical Management LLC of North Carolina for emergency department physician billing. An employee who...
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ONC Releases Interoperability Roadmap Comments
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is a staff division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ONC). They recently published nearly 250 public comments that it received...
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CMS Hardship Exception Applications
If did not meet meaningful use while using Electronics Medical Records software such as Medisoft Clinical, Lytec MD, Practice Choice or PrimeSuite by Greenway or any other EMR or EHR and you want...
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EMR Provider Microwize Technology Acquires Medinet
PARAMUS, N.J., June 24, 2015 Microwize Technology – a firm providing electronic medical records software, healthcare IT solutions, and electronic billing – located in Paramus, New Jersey recently...
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EMR Provider Microwize Technology Announces Lytec Cloud
PARAMUS, N.J., August 3, 2015 Microwize Technology – a Healthcare IT firm providing Electronic Medical Records and Medical Billing software and healthcare IT solutions – located in Paramus, New...
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Greenway Named Top EHR Vendor
According to a recently released study, Greenway Health is now the top ranked electronic health record (EHR) vendor for customer satisfaction among primary care physicians. As an article on Practice of...
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Meaningful Use Down for the Count
According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) they have been working with physician and consumer...
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ONC Releases 2016 Interoperability Standards
Interoperability refers to systems that allow providers to share data among different practitioners, insurers, billing/scheduling systems and health information exchanges improving quality of patient...
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Lincare to Pay $240,000 HIPAA Fine
Respiratory care provider, Lincare, was ordered to pay a $239,800 fine (LINK TO POF ARTICLE) by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR). “While OCR...
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Security of Health Data Scrutinized by Many as Apple Holds off FBI Demand
As Apple refuses to comply (Apple CEO Tim Cook says that they do not have the technology and it is too dangerous to create) with the court ruling for them to create a backdoor into iPhones, many are...
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Hackers Continue to Stack up the Attacks
Mount Pleasant Texas facility Titus Regional Medical Center and Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center are just two recent examples of hackers accessing systems of major medical providers. In these two...
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IBM Watson Health Aids Tiatros with Patient Information
Watson is the first commercially available cognitive computing which analyzes high volumes of data, understands complex questions posed in natural language, and proposes evidence-based answers. Watson...
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Coders Claim ICD-10 Victory
Crying, Teeth Grinding, Anxiety, Pulling Your Hair Out – all is unwarranted! While it is too early to claim a complete victory, coders seem to have overcome the challenges of ICD-10 coding. Continuing...
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MIPS Track, What’s the MACRA Quality Payment Program?
MACRA: MIPs Track MIPs, is one of the MACRA tracks, during this webinar recording, we will take you into a deep dive into the composite score and four performance categories that make up the...
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Medicare’s chronic-care management fee: How some are making it work
Since January 2016, the CMS has taken care of the monthly costs for chronic-care management of patients not performed during a personal patient visit. The CMS disclosed that around 35 million Medicare...
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Why should hackers have easier access to EHRs than patients?
Hackers Have Easier Access to EHRs Than Patients Eric Topol and Kathryn Haun put up the case for holding medical data in personal clouds or electronic digital wallets, helping patients and getting rid...
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Power of patient Portal
Many practices are beginning to enjoy the power of patient portal provides to better engage with patients — even to collect payments. But for Jennifer Cossin, billing manager, it’s the portal’s...
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