Hacking Healthcare: A Guide to Standards, Workflows, and Meaningful Use

In the United States, hospitals often affiliate with specialized treatment centers, primary care physicians (family doctors), and so forth, but regulators usually squash these affiliations as anticompetitive and monopolistic unless there is evidence of “clinical integration.”

This is a frequent mistake made by computer programmers and purchasers who come to recognize the complexities of an effective paper-based workflow. They make the reasonable assumption that if they perfectly replicate a paper form in the health IT software, then they cannot fail to successfully replicate the nuances of that workflow.

If users receive too many erroneous or useless notices in a popup format, they can be conditioned to plow through them and miss an important prompt when it does appear, perhaps regarding something such as a potentially lethal medication interaction.

The industry term for data that is protected under HIPAA is protected health information (PHI).

Inpatient facilities we define as those that treat patients primarily in 24-hour cycles or fractions thereof. Outpatient facilities we define as treating patients primarily in distinct visits. A visit could be only a few minutes or could run most of a day.

Merely storing patient data on computers does not, by itself, allow a patient population to be studied more effectively.

Healthcare providers have been saddled with this cost, despite the fact that most of the benefits of computerization accrue to either patients or insurers. Essentially, until now, EHR systems have been disincentivized.

One of the main limitations of the meaningful use funding is that it applies only to doctors, hospitals, and other eligible providers who bill either Medicaid or Medicare. Taken together, these two programs make the U.S. federal government the largest healthcare purchaser in the United States. But many healthcare providers do not take Medicare or M

Doctors feel comfortable drawing “outside the lines” and because they often create their own forms, and are frequently the only readers of their own completed forms, the paper-based patient data system melds easily with the mind of the designing physician. This is all just the benefits of a single paper form; when you add a folder to keep groups of

ontology for medical procedures that the AMA developed.