By Gopal Khanna MBA – The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that we need answers, now more than ever, to the complex challenges that can undercut our healthcare system’s effectiveness:
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By Seema Verma – CMS released preliminary data on COVID-19 derived from Medicare claims. The data provides a highly instructive picture of the impact of COVID-19 on the Medicare population.
In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases.
By Sheba Vine – On June 1, 2020, the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division released revisions to its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs guidance for use with federal prosecutors when investigating corporations for criminal misconduct.
By Avinash Shanbhag & John Bender – Application programming interfaces are powerful tools that help support interoperability in healthcare. Simply put, APIs allow a software “Application A” to interact with a software “Application B” without Application A needing to know how Application B’s software is designed internally.
Supporting the adoption of health IT and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care, here is what is happening at the ONC, including a Cures Act Final Rule Webinar, the ONC Interoperability Forum is now the Tech Forum & job openings at the ONC.
By Matthew Rahn – ONC is excited to announce the Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) Scorecard 2.0. The updated Scorecard includes Health Level Seven International (HL7) approved best practices, quantitative scoring, a new user interface, updated issue checking, and performance is improved by 20 percent.
By Abhinav Aggarwal – Payers and health organizations struggle to manage the sheer volume of encounter data submissions due to limited visibility into the encounter lifecycle. When an organization lacks visibility into the encounter management process, inaccuracies stemming from a sub-optimal claims process can manifest.
In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases.