by MBA Medical | Dec 19, 2013 | Blog
Great news: overall, electronic health records (EHR) have surpassed the goals for 2013. More than 50 percent of all providers and more than 80 percent of hospitals now use EHR. In total, that means over 291,000 providers in more than 3,800 hospitals got their...
by MBA Medical | Nov 6, 2013 | Blog
As part of the ICD-10 implementation and planning process, practice managers will need to find a training program for their staff. The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) suggests that coding staff worahimking outside the hospital inpatient...
by MBA Medical | Sep 9, 2013 | Blog
As more and more providers march down the path toward fully implementing health plans with value-based payment models, the billing process will evolve dramatically. Within the next five years, many predict that more than half of all health plans will be reimbursing...
by MBA Medical | Aug 6, 2013 | Blog
As hospitals continue adopting EHR systems, a recent study suggests a feature that may be worth including: Giving patients access to their own electronic health records. Most doctors will agree that providers should share information with their patients. However,...
by MBA Medical | Jul 4, 2013 | Blog
In the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest review of our nation’s health, they discovered that nearly 63 million Americans, one fifth of our population, visited the Emergency Department at least one time in 2011. The report revealed that the total...
