Healthcare CIOs Praise ONC for Standards ‘Playbook’
Building on the announcement from HHS, pledging much-needed changes to the Meaningful Use program, healthcare IT leaders praised the release of the Office of the…
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Preparing for ICD-10
By Ric Sinclair – ICD-10 is often described in scary terms—a potential disaster, a perfect storm, an angry attacker bent on destroying your practice. OK, maybe not that last one. But as you ready your organization for ICD-10, consider applying some of the principles of Krav Maga.
2015 EHR Incentive Program Changes to Come
Breaking News: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) intends to engage in rulemaking this spring to help ensure providers continue to meet meaningful…
Free Live Physician CME Webinar
To qualify for Meaningful Use, improve patient engagement, and prepare for value-based reimbursement, nearly 40% of all physicians are looking to switch EHRs. Many have put it off because this big switch is very challenging.
The Experience of Interoperability Thus Far
By John Halamka, MD Twitter: @jhalamka As I travel across the country and listen to CIOs struggling with mandates from Meaningful Use to ICD-10 to…
Meaningful Use Pain Point for Hospitals: Transition of Care
By Jim Tate – The transition for Eligible Hospitals (EH) from Stage 1 to Stage 2 Meaningful Use (MU) certainly has challenges. Six months ago I had imagined that patient engagement requirements would be the troublemaker. After all, getting patients to come to the hospital patient portal was a whole new ball of wax.
Compliance and Security of PHI Build a Trustworthy Framework in Healthcare
By Lee Barrett – Some say there’s nothing like a little controversy to spark interest in your organization. Others say there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Call me old fashioned, but I contend, in healthcare, being featured on the Office for Civil Rights’ Wall of Shame or plastered on a news headline about a breach of personal health information (PHI) bad publicity, bad business and bad medicine.
ZirMed Announces Successful End-to-End ICD-10 Testing Results
ZirMed®, the premier cloud-based enterprise financial and clinicalperformance solution for healthcare, announced results from its latest ICD-10 end-to-end testing efforts. After surveying its clients, ZirMed found overall that those who have started testing have gainedconfidence in their ICD-10 coding strategy and found additional areas for testing in 2015.
AAFP Comments on ONC Health IT Strategic Plan
AAFP has provided comments on the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan. In a letter to the ONC, the association supports the goals of the Strategic Plan but says population health management, care coordination, and patient engagement need more attention.