Recent study findings showed small physician practices (either solo practitioners or two-physician practices) are less likely to adopt electronic health records, according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital…
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will be surveying Medicaid providers to collect data on specific meaningful use challenges and using that information to create technical assistance and support for those providers, according to a Government Health IT news…
The workgroup that advises the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT on meaningful use issues has recommended the federal agency delay implementation of stage 2 meaningful use by one year in order to lift the burden for eligible…
The newly created American College of Clinical Information Managers will aim to establish a national accreditation pathway for medical scribes, according to an ACCIM news release. Read the full story in Becker’s Hospital Review on ACCIM.
The Health IT Policy Committee’s adoption and certification workgroup has written a letter to the Office of the National Coordinator, urging the federal agency to require a level of standardization among differing electronic health records, according to an InformationWeek news…
Here are five big questions for orthopedic surgery center administrators for maintaining profitability.
Robotic and computer-assisted technology is now available for use during orthopedic and spine procedures. There are many concerns associated with the efficacy and efficiency of this technology, especially since it costs hospitals a great deal of money to acquire. Here,…
DePuy Orthopaedics named Andrew Ekdahl its new president, according to a company news release.
For traumatic and osteoarthritis, biologic joint replacements could be the wave of the future for surgery centers, said Kevin Stone, MD, The Stone Clinic at the 9th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 10.
In a presentation at the 9th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 9, Mike McKevitt, senior vice president, business development, and Bo Hjorth, vice president, business development, Regent Surgical Health, discussed best practices for…