July 10th 2025
Recent court rulings reshape reproductive health care privacy and regulations, emphasizing the need for updated HIPAA policies and awareness of state laws.
Clinical ShowCase™: Forming a Personalized Treatment Plan for a Patient With ANCA-Associated Vasculitis
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Addressing Healthcare Inequities: Tailoring Cancer Screening Plans to Address Inequities in Care
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SimulatED™: Diagnosing and Treating Alzheimer’s Disease in the Modern Era
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SimulatED™: Understanding the Role of Genetic Testing in Patient Selection for Anti-Amyloid Therapy
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Patient, Provider & Caregiver Connection™: Understanding the Patient Journey to Provide Personalized Care for Generalized Pustular Psoriasis
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Cases and Conversations™: Applying Best Practices to Prevent Shingles in Your Practice
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Clinical Consultations™: Addressing Elevated Phosphate Levels in Patients with END-STAGE Kidney Disease (ESKD)
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Advances In: Managing Hyperphosphatemia in Chronic Kidney Disease – Bridging Treatment Gaps With Novel Therapies
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Burst CME™: Addressing Inadequate Response to Anti-TNF Therapy in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis
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Community Practice Connections™: Cases and Conversations – Keeping Up with Novel Approaches to Managing ANCA-Associated Vasculitis
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Burst CME: Targeted Therapy for Optimal Psoriasis Management
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Cases and Conversations™: A Horizon View of Continuous Monitoring Systems for Diabetes Management
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Trendspotter: Fledgling IPA Charts Its Own Course
November 24th 2010Hospitals need not control ACOs. There are clinically integrated IPAs and PHOs that could easily become ACOs, and 50 to 75 other physician-led organizations are on the same path. Among these entities is the Beacon IPA of Manhasset, NY. Formed last summer, the IPA already has about 200 physician members, and the IPA’s long-term goal is to become clinically integrated and ready for whatever healthcare reform brings, including ACOs.
Blue Button Providing Patients with Health Data
November 5th 2010Have you heard of the blue button? The new government initiative aimed at providing patients with easier access to their healthcare information recently launched and could expand. The idea is that a patient can click on the blue-button icon on their patient portal Web sites, and download their health information into a text file.
Don't Wait to Prepare for the ICD-10 Transition
October 26th 2010Are you ready for the ICD-10 coding transition? Probably not, and although the deadline is years away, practices should be acting now to prepare. Two experts at this year's MGMA annual conference offer specific steps practices should take now, from setting a budget to contacting vendors.
Protecting Your Practice from Fraud and Embezzlement
October 26th 2010In her MGMA session on the internal checks and balances practices should implement to prevent fraud and embezzlement, Susan F. Childs noted that 75 percent of businesses have a risk of theft or embezzlement. Is your practice at risk? Find out how to assess your practice procedures and prevent theft in your practice.
Video: Understanding Meaningful Use of EHRs
October 26th 2010David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, sat down with Physicians Practice at the MGMA 2010 annual conference to explain the overall goal of the EHR transition and the status of clarifications of the criteria.
A Look at the MGMA Conference with President William Jessee
October 20th 2010This year's annual MGMA conference comes at a particularly unnerving time for many practices, as they face uncertainty about federal reimbursement and complex EHR requirements. The annual conference of the medical practice association is being held in New Orleans October 24 to 27, and will cover a wide range of topics from health reform to ICD-10.
Trendspotter: Doctors Question Regional Extension Centers
October 20th 2010Recently, David Nash, MD, a health policy expert from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, wrote a blog post urging physicians to take advantage of the 62 RECs that have been established. The responses to his post reveal physician attitudes toward RECs and EHRs just three months before the government incentives start becoming available in 2011.
Meaningful Use - Meaningful to Whom? Meaningful At All?
October 4th 2010The new meaningful use criteria for EHR incentives focus on whether a computer system can perform specific functions or provide particular features - things that are easy to tabulate. It’s harder to determine if you actually use the system and if you, your practice or your patients are better off. There is no assessment of the possibility that computerizing made things worse.