BREAKING: New Rules on HSAs
HHS has issued a “guidance bulletin” which states how they intend to define the minimum “actuarial value” that health plans must meet starting in 2014. If a plan does not…
Protecting Workers Against Violence is Worth the Cost
I was recently interviewed for an article in Healthcare Finance News about the cost of protecting workers against violence. It came about because of a ANA survey looking safety concerns in the workplace…
Meaningful Use, Secondary Use and Big Data
EXCLUSIVE POST - At HIMSS 2012 in Las Vegas, everyone was anticipating the announcement on Stage 2 of Meaningful use from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). The announcement…
Finding Fraud in Medicare Claims
Certainly one of the methods to reduce fraud is to catch the opportunists that see the U.S. Treasury as easy pickings. Hidden in the maze of billing, coding,…
Honesty in Medicine: Do Doctors Tell the Truth?
Did Washington Chop Down the Cherry Tree?Did Washington Chop Down the Cherry Tree?Courtesy of National Archives…resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot…
Study: Risk of Death in Elderly Patients with Dementia Doubled with Some Antipsychotic Medications
Posted in Knowledge & MedicinePharma & Devices Posted in Knowledge & MedicinePharma & DevicesWhen training as a geriatric medicine fellow many, many years ago, I was always taught to be…
Can Health IT’s Newest Ideas Reduce Cost, Improve Quality and Facilitate Patient Engagement?
Billed as ‘the most comprehensive and authoritative knowledge event in healthcare IT today’, the HIMSS12 Annual Conference commenced this week. Borrowing from the success of the TED conferences, the event…
Health Literacy Resources for Pharmacies
The AHRQ has released resources to help hospitals address Pharmacy Health Literacy; the degree to which individuals are able to obtain, process, and understand basic health and medication information and pharmacy…
Meaningful Use on the Red Carpet
This week at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems (HIMSS) conference, the CMS and ONC rolled out the red carpet for the Meaningful Use Stage 2 (“The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for…
Electronic Medical Records: From Clinical Decision Support to Precision Medicine
This is a presentation I gave to the Dutch delegation to HIMSS. It reflects much of my current thinking about current and future trends in health IT. This is…
