ZirMed®, the premier cloud-based enterprise financial and clinicalperformance solution for healthcare, announced results from its latest ICD-10 end-to-end testing efforts. After surveying its clients, ZirMed found overall that those who have started testing have gainedconfidence in their ICD-10 coding strategy and found additional areas for testing in 2015.
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EHNAC, a non-profit standards development organization and accrediting body for organizations that electronically exchange healthcare data, announced that GE Healthcare and NextGen Healthcare are the first two organizations to achieve accreditation under its Practice Management System Accreditation Program (PMSAP).
Industry leaders convene working group to address growing concerns over health information systems and medical device security by establishing a Health Information Technology (HIT) framework…
Mayo Clinic announced that Epic has been selected as its strategic partner for a single, integrated electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle management (RCM) system. The new system will replace Mayo’s three EHRs in use today.
AAFP has provided comments on the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan. In a letter to the ONC, the association supports the goals of the Strategic Plan but says population health management, care coordination, and patient engagement need more attention.
The 2015 Most Wired Survey is now open, the American Hospital Association’s Health Forum and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) announced. Published annually by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, Health Care’s Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study is a leading industry barometer that measures information technology (IT) use and adoption among hospitals nationwide.
AAFP has provided comments on the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan. In a letter to the ONC, the association supports the goals of the Strategic Plan but says population health management, care coordination, and patient engagement need more attention.
CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner will leave her post at the end of February. Number 2 at CMS, Andy Slavitt will be the interim Administrator
And the Lords of Leaping keep leaping. Breaking news on Friday last week reported the CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner will leave her post at the…