Twitter #saveAHRQ Hashtag Highlights
Following up and continuing Dr. Hersh’s In Defense of AHRQ: A Key Component of Healthcare Delivery Science conversation to save AHRQ from being defunded. The…
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Revenue Cycle and Payer News 7-8-2015
Latest News on the Health Insurance Industry. Mergers, mergers, mergers, where will it all end? Who will be the winners? Who will be the losers?
Electronic Health Record of First President Sheds New Light on Progress of Healthcare
How healthy was the Father of Our Country? That was the question asked by Amazing Charts when it constructed a fictional Electronic Health Record (EHR) for President George Washington at the age of 57, ten years before his death.
CMS and AMA Announce Efforts to Help Providers Get Ready For ICD-10
With less than three months remaining until the nation switches from ICD-9 to ICD-10 coding for medical diagnoses and inpatient hospital procedures, CMS and the AMA are announcing efforts to continue to help physicians get ready ahead of the October 1 deadline. CMS is releasing additional guidance that will allow for flexibility.
HIMSS Survey Finds Most Healthcare Organizations with Significant Security Incidents
Cybersecurity was identified as an increased business priority over the past year according to 87 percent of respondents in the newly released 2015 HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey.
Meet the New CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt
Earlier this year, Andy Slavitt was named Acting Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. As Acting Administrator, Andy oversees programs that provide access to health care for 140 million Americans, including Medicaid, Medicare, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Health Insurance Marketplace.
HITRUST CSF Assurance Program Adoption
The Health Information Trust Alliance is announcing an expansion of the healthcare industry’s use of the CSF Assurance program in support of efforts to efficiently and effectively manage the third-party assurance process.
Health IT Business News – June 29, 2015
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) has announced the release of its latest ICD-10 readiness survey to determine how well the healthcare industry is progressing towards the Oct. 1, 2015 implementation deadline.
The FHIM Receives “Two Thumbs Up” from The Open Group
In a recently released report, the Federal Health Architecture’s (FHA) Federal Health Information Model (FHIM) was reviewed by The Open Group Healthcare Forum, a forum of The Open Group – a global consortium of more than 450 organizations focused on achieving business objectives through IT standards.