By: Alaap Shah and Marshall Jackson
With the New Year, come new protections for health care entities and individuals utilizing electronic health records (EHRs). On December 27, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), issued final rules regarding the
By: Alaap Shah and Ali Lakhani
The Good:
“Hey Doc, just shoot me a text . . .”
The business case supporting text messaging in a health care environment is compelling – it is mobile, fast, direct, and increases dialogue between physicians and patients as well as streamlines the often inefficient page/callback paradigm that
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has an awful lot in it. But at its core, the legislation is an attempt to achieve a few key goals:
There is little debate that each of these goals is