Nephrologists in Accountable Care Organizations—Do They Have a Role? A video by Jeffrey S. Berns, MD, Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services attempts to … [Read more...]
How to Train a Dragon: A Nephrologist’s Experience with Voice Recognition Software
In this first post by a guest blogger, nephrologist Peter Manring, MD, explains how he effectively uses the voice recognition software Dragon NaturallySpeaking and how physicians can get the most out … [Read more...]
Meaningful Use Attestation Arrives (Almost)
Last week CMS announced the meaningful use attestation process will be available on April 18. With this announcement, CMS has provided an early glimpse into the attestation process. This announcement … [Read more...]
The e-Prescribing Penalty: A Snake in the Grass?
At the annual RPA meeting last week in Washington, D.C., I entertained several questions related to the CMS e-prescribing penalty. I have described this penalty in other venues and in this blog. … [Read more...]
Health Information Technology at the RPA Meeting
This weekend I had the pleasure of attending the Renal Physicians Association’s (RPA) annual meeting in Washington D.C. There were over a dozen Health IT vendors in the exhibit hall displaying a range … [Read more...]
ICD-10: Are You Ready For It?
Last week we discussed the arrival of the 5010 transaction standard. The transition to the 5010 standard has many drivers. One of those is the requirement to accommodate the ICD-10 code set that … [Read more...]
Medicare or Medicaid? Which Pill Should I Swallow?
Sci-Fi fans will recall the scene from the Wachowski brothers’ 1999 classic “The Matrix” where Morpheus is offering civilization’s great hope, Neo, a choice—take the red pill or the blue pill. Neo, … [Read more...]
E-prescribing & CPOE: 2 Birds, 1 Stone
Over the past few months we have explored a number of the meaningful use objectives within the CMS EHR incentive program. Here, I’d like to review two closely related stage 1 core objectives: … [Read more...]
