Guest blogger, Tabetha Thompson, details the plan her practice has put into place to circumvent Internet outages and computer issues when adopting an EHR. Tabetha is Team Leader for Nephrology … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup :: August 3, 2012
HIMSS' 7 Tips for Responding to a Meaningful Use Audit CMS has begun its first wave of required retrospective audits for those providers paid under the “meaningful use” EHR incentive program. Tips to … [Read more...]
2 Txt or Not 2 Txt? Physician Communication in the 21st Century
Guest blogger Dr. Evan Norfolk discusses the pros and cons of the use of texting for nephrology professionals. Dr. Norfolk is the Associate Director in the Department of Nephrology at Geisigner … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup :: July 27, 2012
Meaningful Use Participants Begin Receiving Audit Letters From Contractor The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has begun conducting audits to determine compliance with “meaningful use” … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup :: July 20, 2012
U.S. Doctors Embracing Electronic Health Records: Survey A majority of U.S. physicians have now adopted an electronic health record system as part of their routine practice, a new national survey … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Round Up :: July 13, 2012
Health Technology and Patient-Centered Principles Shown to Improve Care According to the bulk of evidence published during the last 14 years, using both patient-centered care principles and health … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup :: July 6, 2012
The American Medical Association’s President-Elect on the Future of Health Care Ardis Hoven is an HIV specialist-based in Lexington, Ky. who, last month, became president-elect of the American … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT news Roundup :: June 29, 2012
Docs Who Used EHRs Showed Lower Malpractice Claims A study by Harvard Medical School researchers, published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine, showed that Massachusetts physicians who used … [Read more...]
