Class-Action Lawsuit Aimed Against the Internal Revenue Service A lawsuit emerging from California alleges that the IRS improperly accessed about 60 million health records belonging to about 10 million U.S. residents,according to Healthcare IT News reports (McCann, Healthcare IT News, 3/15). See its report as follows: Details of the Allegations An unnamed HIPAA-covered entity in [...]
Steve Waldren, MD, director of the American Academy of Family Physicians’ Center for Health IT, and Rosemarie Nelson, principal of the MGMA Consulting Group, gave us the worst sins providers can commit during EMR implementation. 1. Not doing your homework: Avoiding supplier problems means background research and thorough evaluations of vendors and products. And [...]
After being kicked around for more than a year, meaningful use has been defined and waiting for implementation. Yet, many hospitals and physician offices have not been able to employ them yet and won’t be able to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid bonus payments by 2012 or even 2015, when penalties for non-use start. Although [...]
According to the Florida Board of Medicine earlier this month, electronic medical systems incorrectly used or improperly designed emr programs may actually be creating more patient care errors than the old hand-written ones that they are designed to replace. “Doctors are being inundated by vendors who are selling newly developed electronic medical record systems, some [...]
