Health information exchange (HIE)
The push for health information exchange (HIE) began back in the Bush administration, with the long-term vision of a National…
Category: Physician Practice Articles
Issues Facing Medical Practices
Accountable Care Organizations: wave of the future or blast from the past?
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are generating quite a buzz these days. Health policy experts rejoiced to see ACOs included in…
EHR risk management
One of the policies underlying the government's push to encourage adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) is the expectation that…
Shared savings program
Section 3022 of PPACA calls for the establishment of a Medicare shared savings program by January 1, 2012. The shared…
Value based purchasing
Title III, Subtitle A, Part I of PPACA is entitled “Linking Payment to Quality Outcomes under the Medicare Program”. These…
Turning the Battleship: Can PPACA Change the Trajectory of Medicare Costs?
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [i] (PPACA), commonly known as the health care reform law, will likely have…
A third of physicians paid by pharmaceutical companies to attend meetings
A recent poll of U.S. physicians found that about a third have been paid by pharmaceutical companies to attend meetings,…
New law requires greater healthcare privacy protections
Privacy advocates worry that as patient records move from paper to the digital environment, security breaches will occur more frequently…
Healthcare Innovation in the 21st Century
“Innovation” is the new buzzword; it’s being used to describe products and services in almost every radio and television commercial. …
Evolving standards for personal health records
As the healthcare industry continues its progress toward adoption of electronic health records, another type of electronic record garnered big…