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...hard to see how a digital chart is a ticket to increased revenues. Instant communication from the health information side - with all the tests, diagnoses and treatments - to the billing side that pays for it all, makes billing faster and easier. Why give away that Ace bandage for free? This at least is efficient. But communication the other way, from billing to medical, will take place too. And this is more ominous. The doctor should tell the biller what he found and did. But that EMR program can easily be a very clever, covert way for the biller to tell...
...knee operation will run a fever for a while afterward. No one really knows why. But let the computer pick up the temperature elevation and make me address a pull down menu that includes "fever of unknown origin" and I have to add a diagnosis to the patient's chart that often means a bigger payment - though the only treatments for this fever are being given anyway...
...which ones are fit and which ones are flatlining, and then apply the appropriate therapy - which we assume means anything from injecting capital to pulling the plug. By using a medical term, Geithner gave the impression that he had some fiscal electrocardiograph that could be strapped to banks to chart the strength of their accounts. But when it comes to a bank checkup, the actual test is far less scientific. (Read "Geithner's Challenge: Selling a Plan Without the Details...
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...started for '60s girl group the Ronettes when they won a 1959 Apollo Theater talent contest. Estelle Bennett, 67, her sister Veronica and their cousin Nedra Talley parlayed that victory into a chart-topping career with such singles as "Be My Baby" and "Walking in the Rain...