A new set of HIPAA patient privacy regulations will impact practices and physicians everywhere with stronger legal scrutiny and higher fines in place. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has updated the final omnibus to enhance the security of patient privacy established by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996…..
We recently expanded our user base at DocbookMD, and found ourselves teaching the basics to hundreds of new doctors and medical society executives around the country. What became quickly apparent was the fact that while DocbookMD is very simple to use, the best features are not always obvious until you have used them once. What…..
Mobile Healthcare, or mHealth, is quickly becoming mainstream in the medical community. Physicians are increasingly reporting that they do not feel comfortable with growing patient workloads in this time of ever-changing healthcare delivery. This shouldn’t come as a surprise as doctors have more consulting physicians to collaborate with, higher complexity of diseases to manage, and…..
G. Bernard Shaw once said, “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” It’s no secret that communication between health care providers is far from where it needs to be. Just to grasp the magnitude – look at the 2009 cross-sectional study of Medicare claims data by Pham et…..
With the number of serious medical errors on the rise due to miscommunication between health care providers, it is shocking that there has been little meaningful change in this area in the past decade. Few changes would lower medical costs and improve health outcomes like opening communication between physicians. The Joint Commission has estimated that…..