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FORCE-TJR chooses 16 for PQRS
Patricia Franklin, MD, FACS, the registrar of FORCE-TJR, shared the 16 new measures it uses for the Physician Quality Reporting System. Data on these will be forwarded to the government, and will also be crunched into the usual bits for benchmarking and comparison amongst the other FORCE members.
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CMS certifies registry as a Qualified Clinical Data Registry
CMS has certified FORCE-TJR, the national registry for total hip and knee joint replacement patients and their surgical outcomes, as a Qualified Clinical Data Registry. This allows members to use their data for submission to the Physician Quality Reporting System, avoiding a 2% payment adjustment for failing to do so. The Medical Group Management Association has estimated that up to 40% of providers with Medicare patients will be docked pay for not submitting this data.
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Questions to ask Patients About Medication History
Here are 12 great questions to get you started.
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Are You Worrying About Med Rec?
Patient safety and quality issues seem to have years when they are popular and then years when they fall out of favor, when other items get all the press.
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Root cause analysis is not enough
The NPSF released a document in June designed to explain the concept of RCA2 (RCA Squared).
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Breaking News: Update on Two-Midnight Rule
CMS released proposed updates to the hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System that will impact the existing Two-Midnight Rule beginning January 2016.
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HIPAA breach attributed to stolen laptops
The latest HIPAA breaches across the country continue to reinforce the importance of basic security measures, with stolen laptops causing trouble for one hospital.
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CareFirst breach tied to Chinese attacks, limited by segmentation
Soon after CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield announced that the company had been the target of a sophisticated cyberattack, clues started arising to suggest that the same attack methods might have been used in this intrusion as with breaches at Anthem and Premera. Those incidents collectively involved data on more than 90 million Americans.
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Vendors can be the weak point in your HIPAA compliance efforts
Business associates can frustrate compliance officers because they cannot be completely controlled, yet their performance can lead to a HIPAA breach for which the hospital or healthcare system is liable. Some providers are trying to use indemnification to escape that trap, but there are limitations to that strategy too.
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8.8 million fewer U.S. residents uninsured in 2014
An estimated 36 million U.S. residents lacked health insurance at some time during 2014, 8.8 million fewer than in 2013, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.