Yes, you read the title right. Here is the info: It will cost the Veterans Affairs Department at least $4.89 billion to maintain its current electronic health record system during its Cerner transition, a VA official told lawmakers Thursday. The VA currently uses a homegrown EHR called VistA, which agency programmers and clinicians developed in…
WARNING: You will get into big trouble with even one HIPAA slip up so be careful. That being said, the rest of the healthcare industry, continues to get a pass: The healthcare industry had the highest cost of a data breach for the ninth consecutive year, costing organizations nearly $6.5 million on average – more…
I never got an 82% raise when I was employed by two different hospitals. Now that I own my own business I still haven’t got an 82% raise. But you know who has? In Michigan, Beaumont Health CEO John Fox’s compensation increased 82%, to more than $5.6 million, in 2017. Want more? The company’s profits…
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I got tipped off about this by one of the loyal readers of this blog. GoodRx, who I support in getting cheaper meds, just stabbed us doctors in the back. They are working with a company called HeyDoctor, who states they can get you a doctor in 5 minutes for things such as: You can…
You are NOT going to believe this but the same idiots are at the same game. It is actually so laughable that it is hard to type right now. Ok, it’s called Powering-Up Primary Care Teams: Advanced Team Care with In-room Support and here you go: However, “a new team model is bubbling up across…
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I can’t believe MIPS (Merit Based Incentives Payment System) still exists. Quality metrics continue to fail because there is no true way to define quality. Did you see the study where they used “time with patient” as a quality metric? No? That’s because it will never be done. But back to MIPS. This just came…