Your #EHR – How Your #Doctor Gives Your #Information to the #Government

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Paper records are now electronic.

by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, DO, AOBNMM, ABIHM
In 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began a program to entice doctors and hospitals to incorporate the use of Electronic Health Records or EHR. The carrot? The promise of convenience, coordinated care, fewer medical errors, more efficient office visits, improved access to medical records. Oh yeah, and they were told, “If you want to get paid, you must convert and bill electronically.”

The EHR programs were costly. The setup and implementation fees, which could be $30,000 or more, were required for each physician in a practice. Therefore, the government offered two incentive programs to encourage participation. The Medicare EHR Incentive Program offered to pay up to $44,000 over 5 years to cover the cost to implement a specific type of EHR, one that was certified to store and easily transfer structured data. The Medicaid EHR Incentive Program, offered to pay up to $63,750 over six years. In exchange, providers had to prove they were using the EHRs in a “meaningful way,” now simply referred to as “meaningful use”, or MU.

To date, at least 400,000 providers have adopted EHRs and are “meaningfully using” them. The sheer cost of the mandate, even with the incentives, forced many doctors to leave private practice and become hospital employees. They are now told how to practice medicine by administrators, insurance

#MakeAmericaHealthyAgain, An #OpenLetter to President #DonaldTrump, Part 1

By Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, DO, AOBNMM, ABIHM

Dear President Trump:

I am a big fan and worked diligently to support your election. Not only did I financially contribute to your campaign, we promoted your work and actively campaigned against your competitor. We grew my Facebook page to more than 200,000 followers, most of whom support your agenda to Make America Great Again, especially your willingness to question vaccine safety.

But to Make America Great Again, we have to Make America Healthy Again.

What is happening now – with the Repeal and Replace of the Affordable Healthcare Act – will not move the needle to help Americans be healthy, meaning to be robust, productive and active without swallowing a handful of daily pharmaceuticals.

Something has to change.

For all other industries—automotive, energy, financial—you met with the CEOs, industry leaders, and experts to listen to their suggestions on how to solve their industry’s problems. Before a new ACA Platform can be finalized, you need take on this behemoth medical delivery system. It is very complex to understand being outside looking in. After 32 years as a practicing physician, and about half of those years as the Director of an Emergency Department, I know first hand the problems of what we collectively refer to as Healthcare.

Mr. President, please consider these ideas. I am asking you to put them at the top of your priority list. Change the system for the betterment of all Americans:

1. Save Medicare by eliminating the billions lost through fraud.
Medicare and the Vaccine Industry.
Does Zostavax save the healthcare system money?

In fiscal year 2015, Medicare paid out $568.9 billion for medical services. It is anticipated that total

#Breast #Thermography: A #Tool for #Health

What Every Woman Should Know

by Sherri Tenpenny, DO, AOBNMM, ABIHM

During the past half-century, the lifetime risk of breast cancer more than tripled in the United States. In the 1940s, a woman’s lifetime risk of breast cancer was one in 22. By 2007, it was one in eight. While advances in medicine have increased a women’s chance for survival, little has been done to reduce–or prevent–the cancer from occurring in the first place. 

Thermography is the use of an infrared thermal camera to detect and record the heat radiating from the body.

#Gardasil Mandates Have Begun

 Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, DO, AOBNMM, ABIHM

Just when you think it can’t get any worse…it does.

Rhode Island has announced that the HPV vaccine, Gardasil, has been added as a requirement to attend the 7th grade. In an article published in the Washington Times, Tricia Washburn, chief of the Office of Immunization for the Rhode Island Department of Health, said:

“The bottom line is that HPV is the most sexually transmitted disease in the U.S.” she said. “We are interested in protecting the public health. We feel it shouldn’t be treated any differently than any of the other vaccines recommended by the CDC.”

Seventh graders are 12-13 years of age. What is behind this mandate? Does Rhode Island have a problem with promiscuous teens, prompting this CDC representative to be concerned about protecting the public from human papilloma virus disease?

By checking teen pregnancy rates, it sure doesn’t seem that way. In 2011, Rhode Island was ranked 43 out of 51 states (50 states + the District of Columbia) in births rates in girls aged 15 to 19, and ranked 39 out