Co-founder and former President and CEO of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Richard A. Correll announced his plans to retire at the end of the month, after 23 years.
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CMS is updating select electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) that eligible professionals and eligible hospitals will electronically report in 2016. These versions of the measures were posted on CMS’ website on May 1, 2015 for the annual update of the 2014 measure set.
By Leigh Ann Myers – I recently connected with Eric A. Coleman, MD, MPH of The Care Transitions Program who offered some helpful advice for organizations to consider for improving patient care transitions.
Who doesn’t like a good list? Whether you are on it, know someone on it, or aspire to be on it, you always want to read the list. Here are some interesting lists I think deserve sharing.
Using a picture and visual graphics to represent data and information is called an infographic. Here are selected healthcare technology, innovations, and storage Infographics.
By Susan Clark – Are you feeling like ICD-10 and Meaningful Use are your ‘frenemies’, competing for your attention like Paris and Lindsay, Katie and Rhianna, or Taylor and Selena? Then it is time to re-examine that relationship because in reality ICD-10 has the back of Meaningful Use.
This week’s rundown includes DataMotion and Infor implementing direct messaging, eHealth Technologies and Orion Health announce partnership, and Spok, Inc. releases its latest secure texting app.
Building on the AMA’s current efforts to transform medical education and ensure medical students are trained and prepared to practice in the evolving health care environment, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted policy to ensure medical students receive necessary hands-on clinical experience using electronic health records (EHR).
By William Hersh – Many of us in the informatics field, myself included, sometimes believe that the value proposition of informatics is so intuitively obvious that we do not need to explain it to the rest of the world. API-based interoperability? Secondary use of clinical data? Standardized terminology? Their value is so certain that we need not explain it. Not!