Practice Management

The nuts and bolts of running a group practice or hospital are covered here. Topics include patient scheduling systems, charge capture interfaces with clinical record systems, and claims submission.

HIT Vendor Round-up: Prognosis, HealthInfoNet, PracticeMax & McKesson

Joseph Goedert | May 23

New leadership, an acquisition and milestones are among recent health information technology vendor announcements:

EHR

Group Practices

Health Info Exchange

Hospitals

Vendor News

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Revenue Cycle Management

McKesson Software Giveaway for Charity Care Expands

Joseph Goedert | May 14

McKesson Corp. is expanding a program launched in November 2012 to give away $1 million in licenses for ambulatory software in practices providing charity care in regions with high poverty levels.

EHR

Group Practices

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Vendor News

Allscripts Stock Dips on Poor First Quarter

Joseph Goedert | May 10

The stock price of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions fell 5.6 percent at the open of trading on May 10 as the software vendor announced first quarter 2013 results that significantly missed investment analyst expectations.

Hospitals

Group Practices

EHR

Electronic Data Interchange

Revenue Cycle Management

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Vendor News

HIT Vendor News Round-up

Gary Baldwin | May 07

Meaningful use certifications, mobile job searches, a new telemedicine product and a new name for an established firm are among recent announcements from health information technology vendors:

EHR

Group Practices

Hospitals

Policy & Regulation

Vendor News

Stimulus

Mobile Technology

Decision Support

Squeezing out the Revenue

Gary Baldwin | May 01

Providers look to untangle the often convoluted financial food chain.

Hospitals

Group Practices

Revenue Cycle Management

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Greenway Stock Tanks as Revenue Model Changes

Joseph Goedert | Apr 29

The stock price of ambulatory software vendor Greenway Medical Technologies fell almost 23 percent on April 29 then immediately gained 4 percent in after-hours trading after the company significantly downgraded its financial performance for the rest of fiscal 2013, which ends on June 30.

Vendor News

Group Practices

EHR

Revenue Cycle Management

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Online Store at Athenahealth Hawks Third-Party Products

Joseph Goedert | Apr 25

Ambulatory software and outsourced revenue cycle services vendor athenahealth Inc. has launched an online marketplace to enable customers to buy ancillary software from third-parties that works with the company’s technology.

Vendor News

Document Management

Group Practices

EHR

Revenue Cycle & Payments

CMS to Vastly Increase Rewards for Fraud, Abuse Whistleblowers

Joseph Goedert | Apr 24

A new proposed rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services would put a lot more money behind rewards for information on individuals or entities engaging in Medicare fraud and abuse.

Payers

Group Practices

Hospitals

Electronic Data Interchange

Revenue Cycle Management

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Policy & Regulation

Tracking HIT Acquisitions in 1Q 2013

Apr 14

Chronic Care

Consumer Health

Disease Management

Electronic Data Interchange

Group Practices

Health Info Exchange

Hospitals

Mobile Technology

Payers

Revenue Cycle Management

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Vendor News

ONC Budget Includes a User Fee on HIT Vendors

Joseph Goedert | Apr 12

The proposed 2014 budget for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology includes $1 million from a new tax on health information technology vendors, but $1 million just starts the levy and revenue from the tax will be higher in coming years if enacted. VentureBeat first reported the fee.

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EHR

Group Practices

Hospitals

Policy & Regulation

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Health Info Exchange

ICD-10 Readiness Survey Results: Sobering

Joseph Goedert | Apr 11

A new survey from the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange on ICD-10 preparations--the seventh survey since late 2009--finds a disturbing lack of industry progress during the past year.

Coding

Electronic Data Interchange

EHR

Group Practices

Hospitals

Payers

Policy & Regulation

Revenue Cycle Management

Revenue Cycle & Payments

My Biggest Mistake: HIT Leaders Come Clean

Joseph Goedert | Apr 01

CIOs talk about professional stumbles and explain the lessons they learned from them.

EHR

Systems Integration

Decision Support

Group Practices

Hospitals

Disease Management

Chronic Care

Cerner, WellPoint Team for End-to-End ICD-10 Tests

Joseph Goedert | Mar 28

Health insurer WellPoint and software vendor Cerner Corp. have aligned to conduct a pilot program to get ready for end-to-end testing of transactions populated with ICD-10 codes.

Coding

EHR

Electronic Data Interchange

Group Practices

Hospitals

Payers

Revenue Cycle Management

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Vendor News

New Products from HIT Vendors

Joseph Goedert | Mar 15

Announcements of new products from health information technology vendors started a week before the HIMSS13 conference in New Orleans and continue since the show. Here are some of the newer ones:

Group Practices

Consumer Health

Decision Support

Mobile Technology

Hospitals

Vendor News

Effort to Map Molecular/Genetic Tests to CPT Codes

Joseph Goedert | Feb 27

The American Medical Association will work with McKesson Corp. to develop a common way of identifying and tracking molecular or genetic diagnostic tests.

Coding

Revenue Cycle & Payments

Revenue Cycle Management

Electronic Data Interchange

Group Practices

Hospitals

Payers