Patient ID Now, a coalition of more than 40 leading healthcare organizations, including the American College of Surgeons, AHIMA, CHIME, HIMSS, Intermountain Healthcare and Premier Healthcare Alliance, released its Framework for a National Strategy on Patient Identity: A Proposed Blueprint to Improve Patient Identification and Matching.
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The American Medical Association now offers newly developed online educational resources to help physicians navigate the complex federal regulation aimed at ending information-blocking practices that impede access, exchange or use of patients’ electronic health information.
Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is announcing the availability of nearly $150 million to community-based health care providers to aid their response to COVID-19.
CHIME, the professional organization for chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders, together with HLTH, the leading platform bringing together the entire health ecosystem, focused on digital health innovation and transformation, announced the launch of a new annual industry event: ViVE.
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) announced that 53 Direct Contracting Entities are participating in the Direct Contracting Model’s first Performance Year, which started April 1.
Starts April 20th – New CMS Innovation Center Director, Elizabeth Fowler, J.D., Ph.D., is confirmed to open the NAACOS Spring Conference on April 20. Dr. Fowler is a highly-regarded health policy expert with extensive experience in federal government, philanthropy, and industry. She will update conference attendees on the latest news from CMMI.
AAPC announced an international distribution agreement with the American Medical Association that will facilitate access and adoption of the Current Procedural Terminology content for global users.
As new cases of COVID-19 in the United States were peaking in late 2020, most physicians reported that health plans continued to impose bureaucratic prior authorization policies that delay access to necessary care and sometimes result in serious harm to patients, according to new survey results issued by the AMA.
This week’s Talent Tuesday is brought to you by Clarke Caniff Strategic Search. It is no secret that healthcare is one of the biggest industries in the U.S. and also one of the most heavily regulated. The $4 trillion healthcare industry continued to grow in 2020, adding to the more than 399,000 jobs created in 2019.