A Tradeoff to Embrace
Community Health Systems works to strike a balance between cost-savings, physician satisfaction, and service with its physician practices. Sometimes, good things come in small packages,…
Articles by The Journal of Healthcare Contracting
The Case for Evidence
HealthTrust CMO Michael Schlosser spends eight days a week helping clinicians use evidence to make informed decisions about products and procedures In January 2015, HealthTrust…
November 2015
Click Here to Read the current issue (w link to PDF download) Will e-health get in the way of personalized care? ICD-10 Arrives…
So Much Potential
Benefits – and risks – weighed in the expansion of telemedicine Telemedicine is here; it’s expanding; and it has great potential. But the medical profession…
ICD What?
New diagnostic codes apply to long-term care providers Diagnostic coding can be complicated in hospital settings. It can be even more so in long-term care…
In the Headlines
Maryland: CMS’s ONC unveil final rules for Stage 3 Meaningful Use, EHR Certification CMS’s (Baltimore, MD) Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT…
Deadline No. 2 for unique device numbers
By Beth Gibson It has been two years since the passing of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s regulation for Unique Device Identification (UDI), and…
Owens & Minor celebrates a commitment to diversity at its 10th Annual Healthcare Supplier Diversity Symposium
By Rachel Cimino McCue More than 150 participants gathered in Richmond, Va., in September to celebrate a decade of commitment to supplier diversity at the…
Physicians Down on EHR
A survey by AmericanEHR Partners and the American Medical Association shows that close to, or more than, half of all physician respondents reported a negative…
ICD-10 Arrives
What the conversion to ICD-10 means for providers and healthcare stakeholders As hospitals, physicians, skilled nursing facilities and others faced the Oct. 1 deadline to…