By Tom Lee – Did you know the VBM applies to MSSP ACOs this year? Or that VBM quality and cost performance will constitute up to 60% of a provider’s future MIPS score? SA Ignite brings clarity to these questions and more in the following FAQ.
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By Nicole Lewis, iHealthBeat – A study from Dell, in collaboration with research firm TNS, found that 96% of mid-size health care organizations surveyed are using or are considering moving health care information to cloud computing.
This weeks highlights from our Storify. Big week includes National Health IT Week, release of the stage 3 final rules, Pubcon, and how ICD-10 is going.
By Richard Kronick PhD – A few weeks ago, the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine or IOM) released a long-awaited report on a subject of great importance to the AHRQ—how all health care stakeholders can more quickly identify, resolve, and reduce the incidence of diagnostic errors and improve patient safety.
By Talisha Searcy – Since the enactment of the HITECH Act as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the number of health care providers using an electronic health record (EHR) has continued to rise, helping to build the foundation for an interoperable learning health system.
By Steve Spearman – Last week, in Washington, D.C., NIST and OCR held their 8th annual Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance through HIPAA Security seminar. Here are some of the major takeaways and big announcements that came out of that conference.
EHR Interoperability is viewed by many industry stakeholders and agencies as a key factor towards improving health care delivery and outcomes. To date, however, the exchange of health data from one system to another has been limited.
CMS and ONC today released final rules that simplify requirements and add new flexibilities for providers participating in the EHR Incentive Program.
National Health IT Week is October 5-9 this year. Kicking off the week long celebration were events from coast to coast. Here are some highlights.