Identity verification is key for successful implementation of Direct
Robert Rowley, MD Twitter: @RRowleyMD Health Information Technology is on the threshold of a significant step forward. Up until now, most of the emphasis in…
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Blue Button Co-design Idea Winners Announced
Blue Button Co-design Challenge Ideas Involved Patients in the Design The Blue Button Initiative was launched in August 2010 in an effort to accelerate patient…
AMA Seeks Two Year Grace Period for ICD-10 Coding Errors
AMA House Delegates Also Support Skipping ICD-10 All Together The American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates held its annual meeting last week in Chicago….
New Report Indicates 70% of Federal IT Execs Say ‘Big Data’ Mission Critical
Big Data Key to Slashing Agency Budget MeriTalk is an online community and resource for government IT with an audience of 85,000 government community contacts….
Impact of EHR Technology On Healthcare Costs Among Medicaid Beneficiaries
EHR Technology’s Affect On Medicaid Costs The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Information Products & Data Analytics has released a research report evaluating…
Healthcare Infographics – A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Recently Published Healthcare Infographics Using a picture and visual graphics to represent data and information is called an infographic. It is a great way to…
Healthcare Collaborative Partners Pool Resources to Develop Big Data Platform
Provider-Led Data Alliance to Develop and Share Population Health Solutions Determined to ensure healthcare providers get the data analytics and business intelligence they need to…
CMS ICD-10 Billing FAQs
New ICD-10 Billing FAQs On October 1, 2014, the ICD-9 code sets used to report medical diagnoses and inpatient procedures will be replaced by ICD-10…
HIPAA Compliant Data – Who Can Get to What, and Why
Mike Semel Semel Consulting Before you give your employees HIPAA compliant access to patient data you must do some planning. While it would be easy to give…