This may be one of Power Your Practice’s most helpful, as well as most varied, weeks in recent memory.
Not only did we help you brave disasters wisely, but we crowdsourced an article about future concerns over ICD-10 and even unleashed Meaningful Use Made Simple, CareCloud’s accessible and rather informative webinar.
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Upcoding has been the subject of much press since the release of a rather contested New York Times article in September. In it, critics of electronic health records blame the systems for unfairly increasing E/M coding levels over the last few years, and even the HHS reported the practice was “vulnerable to fraud and abuse.”
However, while scouring Twitter, we found a tweet from social media extraordinaire Dr. Kevin Pho (@kevinmd) about the upcoding firestorm and “why doctors are unfairly targeted.”
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Don’t feel discouraged if you haven’t begun to attest for Meaningful Use Stage 1 – we’re here to help! Download our free on-demand webinar, Meaningful Use Made Simple: Streamline Stage 1 and Prepare for Stage 2 today!
If you’ve delayed attestation because the process is complex and you don’t know where to begin, then feel free to watch this recorded webinar for a step-by-step guide to getting started – how and why you need to do it, what some CQMs mean and what most news sources will never tell you.
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Responding to disasters is something every healthcare institution needs to be ready for. From hurricanes to snowstorms to wildfires, having a plan in place and technology to back it up is critical to an effective response.
During these times of crisis many simple things, such as contacting relatives of patients or ordering crucial supplies can become major headaches if an adequate plan is not arranged beforehand. As many healthcare centers employ a higher-than-average concentration of IT equipment, there are certain ways they can leverage them to cope with disasters — and things they must do to safeguard their technology as well.
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