Another Year at #HIMSS16
Answers Media Company at HIMSS 2016 this year. View our story of the five days we spent in Las Vegas from February 29th through March 4th.
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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.
EHR Incentive Program Status Report January 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 January. Active registrants total over a half a million.
TeleMedicine News & Updates
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 being reported.
HCCI Releases New Research Assessing National and State Health Policies
The Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) released a set of six policy briefs assessing the impact of a range of national and state policies on health care costs and utilization. The briefs were developed by independent researchers using HCCI’s repository of commercial claims data for over 50 million insured Americans – one of the largest private health insurance claims databases of its kind.
CMS Updates Attestation System with Fix
CMS shut down the Medicare & Medicaid EHR Incentive Program Registration and Attestation System to correct an error that is preventing eligible professionals (EPs) from claiming an exclusion for Measure 1 of the Patient Electronic Access Objective (referred to as 8A in the attestation system).
ZirMed to Launch Remit and Deposit Management Solution at HIMSS16
At HIMSS, ZirMed will be hosting several product demonstrations at booth #6647 focusing on population health (March 1 at 11am), revenue cycle management (March 1 at 2pm) and cash acceleration (March 2 at 11am).
NPWF Applauds Alignment of Quality Measures
The National Partnership for Women & Families, which has worked for 45 years to improve health for women and families, applauded the unprecedented work to align quality measurement across health care payers – including commercial plans, Medicare and Medicaid – for its promise to drive better care and better use of health care resources.
News & Updates from CMS
CMS is reporting these events, updates and deadlines for providers. These items focus on the agency’s financial and payment responsibilities to providers. Read and sign up for the CMS weekly newsletter MLN Connects® Provider eNews for the most current news.