Health IT Appointments and Hires
Check out the latest announcements made from companies and organizations on the hiring and appointments in the healthcare and health IT industry.
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EHR Incentive Program Status Report February 2016
CMS has released the most recent numbers for the EHR Incentive programs. Here are some Program-to-date highlights from this latest CMS report in February. Active registrants total over a half a million.
HITRUST CEO Testifies at Congressional Hearing
Daniel Nutkis, CEO of HITRUST testified at a Homeland Security Committee hearing on the Role of Cyber Insurance in Risk Management in front of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies.
Call for Medicare Virtual Colonoscopy Coverage
The National Medical Association has joined colorectal cancer care advocacy groups and the American College of Radiology (ACR) in calling on Congress to pass the CT Colonography Screening for Colorectal Cancer Act (H.R. 4632).
TeleMedicine News & Updates 3-21-16
The telemedicine market is growing at a significant rate due to increasing healthcare costs, a growing geriatric population, and rising incidence of chronic diseases mixed with increasing government funding and growing technological advances. Here is news on the industry.
EHRA Announces Version 2 of the EHR Developer Code of Conduct
The Electronic Health Record Association announced the release of Version 2 of the EHR Developer Code of Conduct is being made available to the health IT industry following unanimous approval by the Association’s member companies earlier this month.
Validic Forecasts the Growth in Health IT Adoption and Spending for 2016
Adoption and utilization of digital health tools among providers, clinical research organizations, payers and pharmaceutical companies is set to increase this year, according to a paper Validic published in advance of the and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) association’s 2016 Annual Conference & Exhibition.
The 2016 HIMSS Cost Accounting Survey
As more and more healthcare organizations begin adopting some form of a value-based payment model, the findings of the 2016 HIMSS Cost Accounting Survey suggest provider organizations have a sober assessment of their capabilities in facing the challenges ahead.
HHS Wants to Make EHRs Work Better
Health information technology developers that provide 90 percent of electronic health records used by U.S. hospitals and five largest healthcare systems agree to implement three commitments to improve the flow of health information