Is the Triple Aim in Sight?
Back in 2007, the healthcare industry was introduced to a little concept called The Triple Aim. The major motivation for which is improving population health through a three pronged framework: Improving the patient experience of care (including quality and satisfaction); Improving the health of populations; and Reducing the per capita cost of health care.
6 Ways You Might Be Unwittingly Making a HIPAA Violation
With all this talk about making patient records more accessible to care teams via the magic of the electronic record, HIPAA and HITECH— the two laws that govern patient privacy — might seem like a bit of a downer. They serve a very explicit purpose, however, and ensuring that you are always in compliance will not only save you legal woes, but money in the form of fines and penalties for breaches. There are some obvious breaches of confidentiality that we must strive to avoid: you would never, for instance, post to all your Facebook followers the name, diagnosis and prognosis of a particularly difficult patient that you had today. What you might do instead, though, is go home and tell your spouse all about it. That’s a HIPAA violation.
Obamacare Insurance Cancellations Run Rampant
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Healthcare coverage cancelled? More problems for Obamacare.
As the story of the highly […]
Is Patient Centricity the New Trend for Pharma?
Is Patient Centricity the New Trend for Pharma?
In the post reform environment the pharmaceutical industry has been shown […]
First Aid for Mental Health
When we think of first aid we may think of appropriate responses to physical injuries, like appropriate […]
Top Healthcare Compliance Issues for 2013
Have you ever participated in the “answers” portion of Linkedin? It is a wonderful, interactive forum in which you can pose questions, categorize your question, and receive fantastic answers very quickly. For example, we posed a question in regard to web conferencing hosting options.