From time to time on Neurosurgery Blog, you will see us cross-posting or linking to items from other places that we believe will be of interest to our readers. Today’s post originally appeared in MedPage Today on Jan. 21. In the op-ed, neurosurgeons Anthony M. DiGiorgio, DO, MHA, and Praveen V. Mummaneni, MD, MBA discuss the burden of electronic health records (EHR) at their institution, the University of California San Francisco. Read More
From time to time on Neurosurgery Blog, you will see us cross-posting or linking to items from other places when we believe they hit the mark on an issue. Today’s…
Guest post from Anand Veeravagu, MD (left) Chief Neurosurgery Resident Department of Neurosurgery Stanford University Medical Center Former White House Fellow Stanford, CA and John Ratliff, MD, FAANS, FACS (right)…
On Halloween, the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees released a bipartisan, bicameral draft proposal to repeal and replace Medicare’s sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula. The proposal would…
Over the past few months there has been a lot of activity on the SGR front, and the AANS and CNS have been at the forefront of discussions on the…
For today’s post we thought you might be interested in this profile of the National Neurosurgery Quality and Outcomes Database (N2QOD) that was published in Becker’s Spine Review. The article…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) recently released the proposed rule on Stage 3 of the Medicare/Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Meaningful Use Incentive Program. The stage 3 objectives,…
