CCHIT Approves Latest Criteria
I might be the first person to actually blog during his CCHIT Workgroup meeting, but it really isn't taking much double-tasking to do it, as it's a cut-and-paste. From CCHIT itself:
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practice management
Billing Services
2009 has been the year of billing service pain. Right now, Igor and I are talking to no fewer than five pediatric practices who are suffering at the hands of bad billing services. Here are some of the things I've seen and heard recently:
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July 2009 Pediatric Practice Management Coding Event!
t's official - go sign up. Space is limited. Similar to our previous endeavors but two days, a lot of content, and the largest collection of pediatric practices in one place all year long. The best part -it's at Disney, you bring your family!
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Experts Review CCHIT and Stimulus Package
About a year ago, I shared a piece from softwareadvice.com about CCHIT (on whose Child Health Certification committee I serve). I found their original response pretty well balanced, so I now pass along their followup to the piece. I won't go through ...
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More About The Stimulus Package and Pediatrics
I don't like to think about the blog on weekends - hey, we're busy preparing for Nowruz! - but I saw this post from Dr. Russell Libby and had to share it. I wish I had thought to do a similar calculation, but the credit goes to him:
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Stimulus Package and Pediatricians
I've had a lot of surprisingly hopeful emails hit me referring to all the "free money" docs expect to get as a result of the Obama stimulus package. Put your cynical hats on, folks, because if you think that the HIT-driven stimulus money as it's desi...
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Friends On-line
As I fall further behind with my blog postings, I must point to two recent additions to the on-line world (well, OK, three):
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Cyber SLAPPed!
These things always happen when I can least afford to spend time working on them. When I leave town, for example, and can't get my mail...PedTalk usually explodes. This time, it's school break and we received the following at PCC:
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Podcasts/Chip Hart
I'd like to introduce Charting the Future, a new pediatric podcast featuring independent pediatricians from around the country.
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