EHR Incentive Program Status Report
Just the Facts from Joe Friday The numbers and facts you are about to see are all true… As of 4/1/2013 The Centers for Medicare…
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ONC Hosts Million Hearts Webinar
Using Health IT Tools to Reduce Heart Disease and Stroke In September of 2011 HHS launched the Million Hearts®. This national initiative wants to prevent…
Industry Responds On How to Advance Health Information Exchange
Advancing Interoperability and Health Information Exchange On March 7, 2013 CMS and HHS filed a notice in the Federal Register seeking input on policy and program…
AHRQ Study to Look at Health IT Impact on Ambulatory Workflow
Patient-Reported Health IT Technology and Ambulatory Workflow The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is conducing a study to look at the impact on…
Bill Introduced to Prohibit HHS from Mandating Move to ICD-10 Codes
Bill HR 1701 Seeks to Halt ICD-10 Compliance Last week at AHIMA’s ICD-10 CM/PCS Summit, Denise Buenning, Deputy Director of CMS’ Office of E-Health Standards…
Surescripts and MiHIN Enter Connectivity and Information Exchange Agreement
The Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN) has entered into an agreement with Surescripts allowing users of Surescripts’ Clinical Interoperability network to send electronic…
Health IT Business News – Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Today’s Business News InteliChart announced that MMIC has added the InteliChart patient portal to its suite of EHR and practice management offerings. The patient portal will enable MMIC’s more than…
Senator Looks to Delay Choice of Tavenner as CMS Administrator
New Wrinkle in Tavenner Nominiation On April 24, one day after the Senate Finance Committee voted to approve Marilyn Tavenner to be administrator of the…
ONC Says ‘Refresh’ Their Health IT Dashboard
Dashboard.HealthIT.Gov Adds 100,000+ New Data Points The ONC’s Health IT Dashboard presents key information and data to enable collaborative monitoring of the impact of federal policies, programs,…