WEDI Releases Guide on HIPAA Transactions Requiring ICD-10 Codes
ICD-10 Impact to HIPAA Transactions The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), the leading authority on the use of Health IT to improve the exchange…
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HIPAA: A $50,000 Question
Ask Joy: This Week – HIPAA Omnibus Rule Deadline Do you feel it—the looming deadline of the HIPAA Omnibus Rule? September 23 is quickly approaching. This week,…
FDA Warning on Medical Devices
Q&A with Mac McMillan Mac McMillan, chair of the HIMSS Privacy & Security Task Force and CEO of CynergisTek answers questions for us on the…
Patient Centered Health IT as the Solution to Universal Health Identifiers
Robert Rowley, MD Twitter: @RRowleyMD The effort to build health IT products that are patient-facing, and able to pull together all the health information about…
New Report Finds Health IT Tools Improve Patient Outcomes
AHRQ Presents Insights on Use of Health IT Tools in Ambulatory Settings The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency…
Recently Published Healthcare Infographics
Healthcare Infographics – A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words Using a picture and visual graphics to represent data and information is called an infographic….
STAT! Is Meaningful Use Trouble Under Your Network’s Skin?
Technology Tests for Meaningful Use Payments & HIPAA Compliance COMMENTARY Mike Semel Semel Consulting Every day doctors order labs, X-rays, MRI’s, ultrasounds, biopsies, endoscopies, and…
Industry Reacts to ONC Mostashari Leaving
High Praise to Outgoing ONC Chief The big news last week was the announcement of Dr. Farzad Mostashari stepping down this fall. There has been…
Data Matters – Part 2
The Potential of Big Data Fostering Innovation Based on a Best Practices for Innovation report by APQC, IBM had conducted a study of more than…