Healthcare IT News Special Report Supplements
The Rise of Telehealth: Opportunities and Challenges. Click here to read this special supplement to the October 2011 issue of Healthcare IT News.
JUNE 2011
"Survive and Thrive: Insights for Payers Navigating Health Reform."
HITECHWatch: A Guide to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a supplemental site to Healthcare IT News and Healthcare Finance News, provides CIOs, CFOs, practice managers and other healthcare IT decision-makers with practical news on the stimulus package of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the incentives that it offers to healthcare providers. The site also provides an EHR Buyer's Guide, which includes enhanced EHR listings as well as links to lists of EHRs that are certified, or pending certification.
This Healthcare IT News online and print supplement, brought to you in partnership with KLAS, covers best practices and overviews of popular RTLS vendors and their offerings. The supplement draws upon data from the KLAS Real Time Location Systems Perception Study 2009, which looks at the impressions and understanding of RTLS solutions by healthcare providers like you.
The nationwide rollout of Recovery Audit Contracting represents one of the most significant financial challenges healthcare providers have faced in the last decade. Billions of dollars are at stake as auditors review the books and demand repayment for overpayment or disallowed claims.
Many providers fear that the RAC timetable is too ambitious, and the demands for medical records will be overly burdensome. Hospitals, physician practices, ambulatory care centers and long-term care facilities will all need to learn how best to prepare for and respond to RAC demands.
An online supplement to Healthcare Finance News and Healthcare IT News, "Surviving the RAC Attack" covers this timely topic and will assist you in preparing appropriately.
This supplement to Healthcare IT News and Healthcare Finance News provides a convenient resource of best practices and lessons learned in managing revenue cycle for hospitals and physician practices.








