Exploring the cloud’s strategic benefits Healthcare organizations traditionally are cautious in their approach to new technologies. With good reason, of course. Healthcare IT supports a mission that leaves no room for error. And as cloud computing has emerged in recent years as a cost-effective alternative to expensive data warehouses, healthcare was not an early adopter. […]
Here’s What the Numbers Say: IBM Watson Top 100 Hospitals
IBM Watson released its Top 100 Hospitals of 2018 in May, evaluating 2,785 hospitals across the United States. The annual study looks for top-performing hospitals in the U.S. based on a balanced scorecard evaluating ‘publicly available clinical, operational, and patient satisfaction metrics and data’. The metrics include analysis of key performance measures including better survival […]
Benefits of Modular Certification
Heard of MIPS? The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is one of two tracks under the Quality Payment Program, which seeks to combine and streamline existing compliance programs with a goal of easing clinical burden while promoting quality care. In most cases, providers serving in Employee Health and Occupational Medicine don’t qualify to participate (click […]
Happy National Nurses & Hospitals Week!
We want to thank and congratulate the entire nurse community for the work that they do. Nursing was rated the most honest and ethical profession for the past 16 years, and that is something to take pride in. Nurses make a huge contribution to the general health and wellness of our communities, and that commitment […]
Why MIPS Might Not Matter to You
The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is one of the two tracks offered under the Quality Payment Program for Medicare that seeks to combine and streamline existing compliance programs with a goal of easing clinical burden while promoting quality care. However, not everyone is qualified to participate in this program. Answer the questions below for […]
Connecting Helps to Build Community
Twice a year at Net Health we participate in a ritual observed by the whole company. New friendships emerge; old acquaintances reunite. Laughs are shared and occasionally a tear is shed. We talk about our purpose, our customers’ success, and the patients they serve. We collectively hit the pause button to create space for ideas, […]
What is an E/M?
Curious about how E/M, or Evaluation/Management, affects an Occ Med business? Watch below as Eddie Stahl, Clinical Solutions Consultant, very clearly points out how E/M codes seriously impact revenue.
Workflow and Key Performance Indicators: Keeping Productivity, Revenue, and Expenses in Check
Workflow and Key Performance Indicators: Keeping Productivity, Revenue, and Expenses in Check Occupational Medicine environments are complex and multi-faceted. Growing as a successful OM facility implies a high level of patient and business symbiosis. A thriving OM business not only provides an exceptional patient experience first-and-foremost – but it also generates revenue and manages […]
Patient Safety Awareness – Opportunities for Change in 2018
Medical error not only causes serious complications for patients, it also creates an incredible financial burden in the United States. A study from John Hopkins suggests that medical errors are the third-leading cause of death in the United States, with upwards of 250,000 deaths annually. Another study by the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation […]
DOT Adds Additional Substances to Drug Test Panel
At the start of January 2018, the Department of Transportation (DOT) added four additional substances to its federally-mandated drug testing panel. With growing concerns regarding the prescription and abuse of opioids, the panel additions were made in direct response to the crisis. DOT recognizes the threat that opioid’s present to public safety, especially in the […]