Healthcare Management Whitepapers

A Critical Choice: Stay the Course or Change? You have invested significant resources to implement your EHR/EMR system with the expectation of capitalizing on that investment for years to come; using the system to attest for Meaningful Use Stage I and beyond. Now you face the system’s vendor prematurely sun-setting the product. What should you do – stay …Read More

Advances in technology, changing reimbursement, regulatory changes and quality and compliance initiatives have driven the way in which clinical information is now captured, automated, reported and reimbursed. As the US transitions from ICD-9 to ICD-10 on October 1, 2013, our elemental diagnosis and procedure coding system will change the content and specificity of the clinical …Read More

A Critical Choice: Build, Upgrade or Partner? Central Maine Healthcare (CMHC), based in Lewiston, Maine, is the parent organization for Central Maine Medical Center (250 beds), Bridgton Hospital (25 bed CAH), Rumford Hospital (25 bed CAH), Central Maine Medical Group (325 employed physicians), and College of Nursing. It is one of only three trauma centers in Maine with more than …Read More

Life in Healthcare is no longer just being in the fast lane. It is Wile E. Coyote with the latest ACME rocket strapped to his back and roller blades on his paws. So, when you think of the transformation of care through the achievement of Stage I and Stage II objectives of Meaningful Use, it …Read More