The AMA took a significant step toward its goal of accelerating digital medicine into clinic practice with the foundational meeting of an AMA-sponsored workgroup charged with facilitating the integration of the latest technological advances in telehealth services into the Current Procedural Terminology code set.
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In today’s business news, ZirMed has announced the results of Black Book Rankings 2015 User Survey. In the report, ZirMed was recognized as the top-ranked comprehensive RCM solution for small and community hospitals under 200 beds.
Healthcare is undergoing its biggest transformation in decades. Payment models are shifting away from volume to a focus on value. Providers more engaged in population health management. Consumers are becoming more active in their care choices, and more.
By Edgar Wilson – All the technology in the world won’t turn rugged individuals into a functioning team. Experts across the spectrum of business and healthcare alike are singling-out the central problem withholding the full value of emerging technology: management.
The first annual meeting of the recently formed Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative produced several key initiatives and elected the 2015-2016 SHIEC Board of Directors. SHIEC is a national consortium and trade association of regional and community HIEs formed in late 2014.
EHNAC, a non-profit standards development organization and accrediting body, and HATA announce a partnership to further efforts of ensuring a common level of functionality and data security for practice management systems.
The Healthcare Administrative Technology Association (HATA) announces that it will hold its Annual Membership Meeting on Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Chicago O’Hare’s Admirals Club.
U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) introduced bipartisan legislation to strengthen accountability and improve transparency in health IT systems.
This weeks highlights from our Storify. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, industry still culling through Final Rules, Joy Rios book on ABCs of PQRS, and Register for our first Expert Panel Webcast!