The country’s shift to a system of electronic health records (EHRs) is showing mixed results, according to a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. On the positive side, physicians reporting the use of any kind of EHR system was 57 percent in 2011, a big jump from the 17 percent reported in 2002. [...]
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Natural Gas Could Save Trucking Fleets Thousands
With natural gas prices at a 10-year low, the trucking industry is crunching the numbers to see if it makes sense to convert fleets to natural gas-powered engines. A new report from the Conference Board of Canada paints a positive picture of a potential engine swap. The nonprofit research group says using natural gas instead [...]
U.S. E-Prescription Market to Reach $205 Million in Five Years
The days of carrying a scribbled prescription to your pharmacist may be numbered. As the U.S. builds a national health information infrastructure based on electronic medical records, the market for e-prescription systems is forecast to reach $205 million by 2017, according to a new report from Global Industry Analysts. E-prescribing—electronically sending a prescription directly to [...]
Can States Legislate Health Insurance Paperwork Away?
We all know the healthcare industry is suffocating under mountains of paperwork. Providers spend millions of dollars in staff salaries and hardware and software solutions to bring their document management under control. Despite this, it seems like paperwork headaches are here to stay. But wait—how about attacking the paperwork issue from a different angle, using [...]
Online Tool Measures Red Tape Burden on Banks and Other Financial Institutions
The U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee recently unveiled an interesting online tool that helps put in perspective the headache of complying with new regulations imposed on the banking and financial services sectors by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. The Dodd-Frank Burden Tracker analyzes the red tape line by line, and calculates an estimated number [...]
White Paper Spotlights Rebate Processing
Rebates are a great tool for product manufacturers and retailers who want to build legions of satisfied, repeat customers. But if the processing of mail-in rebates does not incorporate some sort of digital image capture system, the result can be long turn-around-times and payment hold-ups. When this happens, you’ve just created an army of unhappy [...]
“Vocabulary of Healthcare Reform” Brings Clarity to Confusing Buzzwords and Acronyms
As a provider of business process management and document processing services for the healthcare industry, DATAMARK has been closely following the progress of healthcare reform. Although the Affordable Care Act is in limbo until a ruling by the Supreme Court (expected in late June), the U.S. healthcare industry is still preparing for a future where [...]
Oil, Fuel Prices Expected to Remain High
Iran sanctions may drain 1 million barrels a day from the market Don’t expect much good news about oil prices over the next few months. Worldwide demand for crude still remains high, and sanctions against Iran are soon expected to knock a good amount of its oil exports out of the market. U.S. Energy Information [...]
Healthcare Entities Continue to Lag in ICD-10 Implementation
Latest WEDI Survey Generates an Avalanche of Responses The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange has conducted ICD-10 readiness surveys since 2009 with a trickle of response from a complacent healthcare industry. But with its latest survey, WEDI has at last touched the right nerve—more than 2,500 vendors, payers and providers responded, almost eight times more [...]
NASSCOM Fires Back
Indian IT-BPO association touts sector’s contribution to the U.S. economy It’s an election year, so presidential candidates are bashing the outsourcing industry as they seek votes from Americans concerned about their job prospects. So it was just a matter of time before India’s National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), a nonprofit representing the [...]
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10 Business Process Outsourcing Trends to Watch in 2012
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Global Outsourcing Market Breaks Records in Contracting Activity
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Understanding the “Insourcing” Trend
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U.S. Savings Bonds Go Paperless
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Say Goodbye to the PC and Hello to the “Personal Cloud”
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EHR Adoption Rises, but Small, Rural Medical Organizations Lag
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Natural Gas Could Save Trucking Fleets Thousands
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U.S. E-Prescription Market to Reach $205 Million in Five Years
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Can States Legislate Health Insurance Paperwork Away?
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