New ICD-10 Survey Will Measure Industry Progress
WEDI’s ICD-10 Survey to measure progress towards 2014 compliance date The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is a non-profit organization established in 1991 by…
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HIPAA Omnibus Ushers In Compliance Changes and Challenges
HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule Brings Sweeping Changes It has been ten days since the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights…
Health IT Business News Wrap-up – January 27, 2013
This Week’s Health IT Business News Last week we reported on the upcoming Allscripts 2012 annual earnings call. Greenway Medical, athenahealth and Cerner will also…
Leading EHR Vendors Hold Year-End Earnings Call
EHR Vendors Report on Fourth Quarter and Annual Earnings If you invest in, follow, own or just simply curious about how some well known EHR…
HHS Health IT Patient Safety Action and Surveillance Plan
Comment period for Patient Safety Plan open through February 4th “It is widely believed that, when designed and used appropriately, health IT can help create…
ICD-10 Will Have Huge Impact on Health Information Management Industry
2013 a Year of Re-tooling for Health Information Management Planning The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is here; the transition to ICD-10 compliance looms. What is…
EMRapproved Names Kevin Donnelly New CEO
Chicago healthcare information technology (HIT) company EMRapproved has named Kevin Donnelly as chief executive officer (CEO). Donnelly will implement an aggressive growth plan for the company, which recently moved from a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC) to C Corporation status under his tenure as the company’s former chief operating officer (COO). Donnelly takes over from former CEO
ONC, NeHC Host Events on Patient Engagement and HIE
NeHC and ONC Upcoming Events in February The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has a cooperative agreement with National eHealth…
All the Tools in the Toolbox: How ONC Delivered Value In 2012
A recent story characterized the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) as both “the federal office in charge of a massive rollout of electronic health records” as well as “an office whose primary role has been cheerleader” for health information technology. Well, which is it?
To be fair, since David Brailer’s time, the National Coordinator for Health IT has had two distinct roles: