Using scribes to document patient encounters for physicians offers both benefits and challenges. A pediatric hospital recounts its experience adding scribes to its inpatient rounding teams.

Rounding with Scribes: Employing Scribes in a Pediatric Inpatient Setting

Over the next three years of the RECs’ four-year government contract they will help small physician groups and critical access hospitals use EHRs that bring them government incentives for improving patient care.

RECs on a Mission: Assessing the Regional Extension Center Program

This practice brief defines a variety of nontext data types found in healthcare practices today and outlines the operational challenges of managing this data. It also discusses legal and regulatory considerations, including best management practices to achieve optimal compliance outcomes.

Managing Nontext Media in Healthcare Practices

The number of physicians and hospitals that have registered for the Medicare or Medicaid electronic health record (EHR) incentive program has surpassed 100,000, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Provider EHR incentive registrations exceed 100,000 | Government Health IT

This practice brief is intended to bring awareness of the need for a united industry message of the seriousness and responsibility of handling violations by workforce members. It offers methods for sanction management within organizational policies. This guidance mirrors the breach category approach now codified by HITECH, which encourages sanctions fitting to breach motivation, whether civil or criminal in nature.

Sanction Guidelines for Privacy and Security Violations

After debate, speculation, and anxiety throughout the industry, the first physicians and hospitals have embarked on stage 1 of the meaningful use program. So far… so good.

Meaningful Use: Notes from the Journey

Problem List Guidance in the EHR

This article provides an overview of the program’s proposed requirements, payment models, and incentives and outlines the considerations for those organizations planning to participate in the program.

An ACO Primer: Reviewing the Proposed Rule on Accountable Care Organizations

This article highlights some of the new features in coding central and peripheral nervous system cases with ICD-10-CM/PCS.

Nervous System Coding in ICD-10-CM/PCS

Three HIM vendors share what they have learned about designing successful ICD-10 transitions and how organizations can get the best from their vendors.

Getting the Best from Your ICD-10 Vendor