Millions of people are using mobile wellness applications like Apple HealthKit and Fitbit to record their personal health data. And many healthcare companies are devising ways to integrate this data, called Patient Generated Health Data (PGHD), into patients’ medical records. One such organization, Validic, recently announced a partnership with Electronic Health Record vendor MEDITECH. Utilizing… Read more »
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White Paper: Assessment Methodology
Healthcare regulations and requirements are an ongoing challenge for hospitals, physicians, clinics and medical systems. Costs are increasing, systems are undergoing continuous change to meet regulatory requirements, staffs are inundated with current workloads, and revenue is decreasing. Faced with these costly challenges, organizations implement temporary workarounds to support ongoing needs. Processes are developed utilizing the… Read more »
Best Practices for Securing Protected Health Information
Protecting patient healthcare information has increasingly become an important issue for healthcare providers as security breaches have become more common. There are measures healthcare organizations can take to reduce the chances that their information will be compromised, according to IT experts. First of all, to secure protected information, it is important for organizations to foster… Read more »
Where Should You Be With Your ICD-10 Implementation?
ICD-10 goes live Oct. 1, 2014. Do you know how far along you are in implementation? Are you aware of the phases you need to pass between now and then? If not, read below as Morgan Hunter Healthcare offers a short primer on the key dates and requirements in 2013 for ICD-10. You should already… Read more »