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Extreme Makeover for Healthcare Next Year? PwC Publishes its Top Health Industry Issues for 2011
Date:12/20/2010

re, a risk to health organizations assuming greater accountability for health outcomes.
  • Currently, 86 percent of consumers do not access their medical records electronically, despite vast investments in EHRs and high hopes that consumers will use EHRs to participate in shared medical decision-making.
  • Forty-four percent of consumers think mergers and acquisitions among providers will lead to increased costs, and 36 percent think it will lead to longer wait times.

    • "Health organizations are engaged in a lot of activity, but the success of their efforts ultimately depends on the engagement of consumers – who are at the center of many of the policy goals for health reform," added Garrett.  

    Following is a more in-depth look of PwC's top issues for health industry organizations in 2011:  

    1. Booming business in Health Information Technology (HIT)

    The HIT spending boom is driven by (1) federal requirements that hospitals and physicians meet at least stage one requirements for the meaningful use of electronic health records to qualify for federal stimulus funds in 2011; (2) an aggressive timetable for massive upgrades in back-office infrastructure to comply with new medical coding requirements that will add five times the number of diagnosis and inpatient codes and require providers and payers to use the new HIPAA 5010 electronic transaction format, which will require more than 1,300 system modifications by January 2012; (3) final FDA rules that will require online reporting of adverse events related to medical devices, resulting in possible new tracking technology throughout the supply chain.

    Stage one "meaningful use" requirements mean hospitals and physicians must be able to provide patients with an electronic copy of their health record upon request. But consumers are not asking.  Nearly half of consumers (49%) surveyed still call their doctor's office to request paper medical rec
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