This presentation looks at current issues in healthcare and technology and explores how these issues will affect hospitals and medical practices. Issues include HIPAA random audit program, reform to payment systems, medical home models, long-term and post-acute care, and ICD-10 compliance. Presentation created by Dave Wortman, CEO of Diagnotes - an Indianapolis-based healthcare technology company.

1. The Top 5 Issues in
Healthcare Information
Technology for 2015
Patient care. Anywhere.

2. Physicians are finding innovative ways to use
technology to improve patient care and outcomes…
…as well as reduce the time, effort,
and cost of healthcare.

3. 1. Random HIPAA Compliance Audits
2. Patient Engagement
3. Long Term and Post Acute Care (LTPAC)
4. Medical Home Models
5. ICD-10 Compliance
Here are the top 5 trends that will affect
healthcare information technology in 2015:

4. 1. HIPAA Compliance

5. The US Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) is restarting the Office of Civil
Rights (OCR) HIPAA random audit program.
The HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule
Mandatory fines for instances of willful negligence are
set at a minimum of $10,000 and can climb as high as
$50,000, to a total of $1.5 million per year.

6. What it means for practices:
1. Re-evaluate how carefully you
protect your patient PHI
1. Place a higher priority on
HIPAA-compliant text
messaging and HIPAA-compliant
email solutions
What this means for practices:
Learn more about HIPAA-compliant text messaging.

7. 2. Patient Engagement

8. A key tenet of the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is reform to
payment systems to healthcare providers.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS) performance-based incentive model
The incentive model is built around the belief that
engaged and involved patients achieve better health
outcomes – so better outcomes trigger increased
reimbursement for healthcare services.

9. Start looking at software solutions that go beyond
clinical communication to:
What this means for practices:
1. Improve patient engagement and
experience
2. Give you access to the
information you need, in the
format you need, at the time and
place you need

10. 3. Long-Term and Post Acute
Care (LTPAC)

11. 1. While patients in their 80s and 90s might not be tech
savvy or tech trusting, their providers are
2. Younger seniors – the Baby Boom generation – are
early tech adopters and eager to accept IT solutions
that promise to improve their quality of life
Two reasons caring for our aging
population will move to the forefront of
healthcare IT:

12. Providers are embracing healthcare IT
solutions that improve patient quality
of life and outcomes.
New technology will bridge the gap
HIPAA-compliant healthcare
communication tools such as
mHealth apps and mobile
technologies for health are
not only accepted, but expected.

13. 4. Medical Home Models

14. Patient management software
A wider adaption of patient management software
that enables patients with chronic conditions to live
and function successfully at home
A greater emphasis on ensuring the
patient’s quality of life in their home

15. What it means for physicians
Two-way physician
communication systems and
mobile technologies that will
engage patients proactively and
allow people to communicate in the
fashion (and via the devices) they
are used to using.

16. 5. IDC-10 Compliance

17. Covered entities must continue using ICD-9CM
through September 30, 2015, and be prepared
to switch to ICD-10 on October 2, 2015.
The switch to ICD-10 is upon us.

18. What it means for physicians
1. New medical technologies and procedures
will be identified individually
2. Better and higher quality information =
a better measurement of healthcare quality,
safety, and security (which can improve
efficiencies and lower costs)

19. Patient care. Anywhere.
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