FEDERAL HITECH ACT — eligible physicians could receive up to $44,000 over five years and hospitals up to $15.9 million if they institute and make “meaningful” use of electronic health records.[

Posted on Aug 12, 2009 in Records Management News

Read the entire arti­cle at http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202432957427&Electronic_Health_Records_Facing_the_Issues

FEDERAL HITECH ACT

The stim­u­lus pack­age con­tains sev­eral leg­isla­tive and admin­is­tra­tive ini­tia­tives to pro­mote the use of health infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy and elec­tronic health records in Medicare and Med­ic­aid. The statute is designed to “assist health care providers to adopt, imple­ment, and effec­tively use cer­ti­fied EHR tech­nol­ogy that allows for the elec­tronic exchange and use of health infor­ma­tion.” The law allo­cates more than $19 bil­lion for health care tech­nol­ogy imple­men­ta­tion, includ­ing $17 bil­lion in incen­tives for health care IT adop­tion, in the form of increases in Medicare fees. In essence, it gives cer­tain eli­gi­ble providers incen­tive pay­ments, begin­ning in fis­cal year 2011, for the adop­tion and “mean­ing­ful use” of a cer­ti­fied health care IT system.

When the incen­tive period expires, the statute will induce con­tin­ued dig­i­tal­iza­tion through deter­rence. For exam­ple, those physi­cians and hos­pi­tals that have not adopted EHR tech­nol­ogy by 2015 will be assessed finan­cial penal­ties in the form of lower Medicare fee reimbursement.

Under the plan, eli­gi­ble physi­cians could receive up to $44,000 over five years and hos­pi­tals up to $15.9 mil­lion if they insti­tute and make “mean­ing­ful” use of elec­tronic health records.[FOOTNOTE 1] Cur­rently, “mean­ing­ful use” is a vague stan­dard that will be devel­oped by the Depart­ment of Health and Human Ser­vices by the end of 2009 and closely watched by soft­ware mak­ers that need to mar­ket their EHR soft­ware pack­ages to physi­cians as mak­ing “mean­ing­ful use” of EHR and there­fore qual­i­fy­ing physi­cians for stim­u­lus money reimbursement.

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Free Webinar Addresses Abandoned Records in Self-Storage by Inside Self Storage

Posted on Aug 11, 2009 in Records Management News

Free Webi­nar Addresses Aban­doned Records in Self-Storage 08/10/2009

Ear­lier this year, a self-storage oper­a­tor in Maine caused quite a stir when he attempted to sell a unit full of records from a defunct mort­gage com­pany. The press and pub­lic were out­raged, and the Maine leg­is­la­ture jumped into action with a bill to reg­u­late self-storage auctions.

So what is a self-storage owner or man­ager sup­posed to do when he finds busi­ness records or other per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion in a unit that has been aban­doned or gone into default? This ques­tion and oth­ers will be answered dur­ing a free webi­nar titled, “Address­ing Aban­doned Records in Self-Storage: What We Can Learn From Maine.” The live event will take place on Oct. 13 at 11:30 ET and is hosted by Inside Self-Storage.

Part of the ISS Legal Learn­ing Series, the online sem­i­nar will be pre­sented by indus­try legal expert Jef­frey Green­berger. He will dis­cuss the cur­rent sta­tus of the law, the options as a facil­ity owner or man­ager, and issues to con­sider when you auc­tion a unit in this situation.

For more infor­ma­tion and to reg­is­ter for the webi­nar, visit www.insideselfstorage.com/webinars.

Green­berger is a part­ner in the law firm of Katz, Green­berger & Nor­ton LLP in Cincin­nati, where he focuses his prac­tice on com­mer­cial real estate, with a par­tic­u­lar con­cen­tra­tion in self-storage. In addi­tion to assist­ing facil­ity own­ers and oper­a­tors through legal rep­re­sen­ta­tion and con­sult­ing, he is the legal advi­sor to sev­eral state self-storage asso­ci­a­tions. He is also a fre­quent con­trib­u­tor to ISS mag­a­zine and expos.

Related Arti­cles:

Aban­doned Records in Self-Storage: Whose Respon­si­bil­ity Are They? http://www.insideselfstorage.com/articles/abandoned-records-in-self-storage.html

New CA Bill Addresses Dis­posal of Aban­doned Records http://www.insideselfstorage.com/hotnews/california-bill-1094-personal-information.html

Maine Self Stor­age Oper­a­tors Bat­tle Issues of Aban­doned Records http://www.insideselfstorage.com/hotnews/maine-self-storage-fight-confidentiality-bill.html

RIM Sales Training

Posted on Aug 11, 2009 in FileMan Services

RIM Sales Training

The File­Man Com­mer­cial Records Cen­ter Con­sul­ta­tive Sales Train­ing pro­vide your com­pany a focus for imple­ment­ing your sales strat­egy and mar­ket­ing pro­gram, gain knowl­edge, learn the con­sul­ta­tive sell­ing process, rein­force­ment sales skills, gain effec­tive sell­ing with con­sis­tent, pre­dictable results.

Scope

File­Man pro­vides pro­fes­sional resources and sales train­ing that tar­gets improved rev­enue through pro­fes­sional sell­ing tech­niques along with sale man­age­ment tools that pro­vides mea­sur­able results. Sales train­ing includes FileMan’s Sales­Force Automa­tion tool File­Man Sales­Man­ager

The Sell­ing Process and RM Con­tent Training

The Seven Step Con­sul­ta­tive Sell­ing Process’ role in the Sales Train­ing Course is designed around the unique char­ac­ter­is­tics of sell­ing in the Com­mer­cial Records Man­age­ment Indus­try) Coach­ing, Men­tor­ing, Inspec­tion and Sales Man­age­ment. The course con­cen­tra­tion is on the Sales Cycle and the meth­ods of effec­tive con­trol in uti­liz­ing a Con­sul­ta­tive Sell­ing approach with the focus on Peo­ple, Process and Management

Post Engage­ment Support

Sales Men­tor­ing and Coach­ing is avail­able to File­Man clients using the File­Man Sales­Man­ager soft­ware prod­uct on the con­tent con­tained in this doc­u­ment. It is tar­geted at devel­op­ment of student(s) skills, work processes and man­age­ment of the sales cycle, three and one half days for­mal classroom.