December 2008

The dramatic change in healthcare delivery from private practitioner-based to managed care created a vacuum of responsibility for self care that the patient has needed to fill.

It is the final month of what has been economically a very tough year. Oncology centers and practices continue to face declining reimbursements on all service lines, and most have had either flat or lower revenues.

The decision to move from a paper-based oncology practice to one based on an EHR system can be onerous and intimidating.

The ICD-9 medical coding system we’ve all relied on for decades will soon change.

Some of the Top Health IT Stories from 2008 are discussed.

Technology and medicine are a wonderful combination, but not if the doctor hides behind it, a real concern in a world of EMRs and handheld medical devices.