New Master’s Degree Blends Tech and Health Care
By Anne Ju – The creation of a degree program designed to connect health care professionals and technologists was announced Dec. 4 at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech.
Read MoreNews
Health IT Business News – January 5, 2015
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) formalized its partnership agreement with KLAS Enterprises, an independent researcher of healthcare technology vendors, products and services for the provider market.
National Health Expenditures Continued Slow Growth in 2013
Health spending continued to grow at a slow rate last year the Office of the Actuary (OACT) at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported. In 2013, health spending grew at 3.6 percent and total national health expenditures in the United States reached $2.9 trillion, or $9,255 per person.
Health IT Appointments and Hires 2014
Announcements made from companies and organizations on the hiring and appointments in the healthcare and health IT industry.
EHR Incentive Program Status Report October 2014
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the most recent numbers for the EHR Incentive programs. Here are some Program-to-date highlights from this latest CMS report – October.
Coalition for ICD-10 Responds to AMA
In his recent speech to the AMA House of Delegates, AMA president Dr. Robert Wah characterized the planned implementation of ICD-10 as analogous to the dark forces controlling the galaxy in the movie Star Wars: “If it was a droid, ICD-10 would serve Darth Vader… For more than a decade, the AMA kept ICD-10 at bay – and we want to freeze it in carbonite!”
Health IT Business News – December 16, 2014
DataMotion™ announced it has achieved accreditation with the Direct Trusted Agent Accreditation Program (DTAAP) as both a Certificate Authority (CA) and Registration Authority (RA) from DirectTrust.org and the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC).
Patient Portals: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
I experienced the “pain” of accessing and managing multiple provider portal sites firsthand following an injury and subsequent surgery earlier this year.In the months following…
ZirMed Receives First-Place Ranking for Revenue Cycle Management Solutions
ZirMed®, the premier cloud-based enterprise financial and clinical performance solution for healthcare, announced the results of Black Book™ Rankings 2014 State of the Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) industry report.