This Week's Healthcare Online News
Fierce Health Payer
Wellness program final rule requires lower premiums for participants
May,31,2013
by+ Dina Overland
Insurers must offer members with employer-sponsored health insurance significantly lower premiums for participating in wellness programs--regardless of whether they actually improve their health.
In a final rule issued Wednesday by the U.S. Departments of Health & Human Services, Treasury and Labor, employer-based wellness programs must be structured so every participating employee can "receive the full amount of any reward or incentive, regardless of any health factor."
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Happy EMR Doctor
Patient engagement in the digital era
June,03,2013
by:+Staff
In the not-so-old days of medicine, patient engagement used to involve things like looking the patient in the eye when speaking to them, facing the patient, asking them how they felt, and asking them if they had any other questions before ending the visit. These so-called rules of engagement have now been augmented by the computer in between the patient and the provider.
No longer are the former etiquette protocols sufficient for interacting in the digital era. Now, patient engagement includes Internet searches using “Dr. Google” for what in my opinion are typically anxiety-fueled questions that are frequently unnecessary and irrelevant and would not have been asked prior to the arrival of Internet searches.
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Med City News
A message for docs: Embrace (don’t fear) online patient reviews
May,31,2013
By:+ Deanna Pogorelc
Sites where patients review and rate their physicians have in the past seemed to get a bad rap. But as patients look more at their healthcare choices the way they do at other purchases, the value of these sites, to some, is becoming increasingly clear.
Roys Laux, the general manager of the health and wellness division of service rating site Angie’s List, said the company entered the consumer review business 17 years ago, focusing on connecting consumers with quality home improvement service providers. About five years ago, its reviewers led the company into the health space. Now the site has listing for everything from physicians to dentists to plastic surgeons to healthcare insurers.
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Fierce Health IT
CIOs: Patient data segmentation will be one of HIPAA's biggest challenges
May,30,2013
by:+ Dan Bowman
Navigating the revamped HIPAA omnibus rule will be no minor feat for healthcare organizations, according to several hospital CIOs who spoke recently with the Wall Street Journal.
In particular, the CIOs talked about data segmentation as being among the most challenging aspects of the rule. Scott Joslyn, vice president and CIO at Orange County, Calif.-based MemorialCare Health System, discussed the impact of patients choosing to share only certain pieces of information with clinicians, saying that it could hinder a provider's ability to provide complete medical care for those patients.
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