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…
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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,…
ONC Developer App Challenge
Apps4TotsHealth Challenge In September 2009 President Obama outlined and initiated his Strategy for American Innovation. He called on agencies to “increase their ability to promote…
OCR Releases Tools to Help Understand HIPAA Privacy Rule
New Tools to Educate Consumers and Providers about HIPAA Privacy and Security The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights…
Deploying a Health IT Mobile Device Management Strategy
By Marcus LaFountain Linkedin Profile A recent Ovum study showed that almost 60% of employees bring some type of mobile device into the workplace. There…
Health Datapalooza IV
Open Data, Innovation, and Health Datapalooza One of the Department of Health & Human Services’ (HHS) current initiatives is the Health Data Initiative (HDI). It…