Success under MACRA relies on the capture and maintenance of trustworthy clinical and financial patient data sets. HIM professionals understand root cause analysis, the mechanism of reporting data, and the importance of data consistency and integrity.
The vast majority (94%) of IT decision makers report having concerns about moving data to the cloud, despite the increasing shift to software as a service usage.
Correct, complete documentation is the foundation of a sound medical record and compliant reimbursement, but getting that foundation in place can be challenging. Clinicians are juggling critical tasks in a high-stress situation, and administrative burden of electronic documentation and the disconnect that results from spending more time looking at a screen than a patient are often cited as the primary factors in physician burnout. Enter the medical scribe.
Information for 63,551 patients for Middletown Medical, a multispecialty physician group in Middletown, New York, was exposed due to a misconfigured security setting on a radiology interface.
