ONC Issues Report to Congress on Health IT Adoption and Health Information Exchange
Progress Made in Health IT Adoption The ONC has released it most recent report to Congress on federal initiatives to advance the process of health…
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Identity verification is key for successful implementation of Direct
Robert Rowley, MD Twitter: @RRowleyMD Health Information Technology is on the threshold of a significant step forward. Up until now, most of the emphasis in…
AMA Seeks Two Year Grace Period for ICD-10 Coding Errors
AMA House Delegates Also Support Skipping ICD-10 All Together The American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates held its annual meeting last week in Chicago….
ONC Updates EHR Implementation Resources
Change Management and CQI Strategies for EHR Implementation The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) in partnership with the National Learning Consortium (NLC) provides a…
Healthcare Infographics – A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Recently Published Healthcare Infographics Using a picture and visual graphics to represent data and information is called an infographic. It is a great way to…
EHR and Cyber Security
COMMENTARY William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu Read other articles by this author The FDA has issued a draft guidance…
ECRI Identifies Strategies to Guide Risk Managers on Health IT Approach
Latest ECRI Institute Report Names Top 10 Health IT Success Strategies to Manage Risks The Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing…
MGMA research indicates industry ICD-10 readiness lagging
Association calls on practice trading partners to release implementation plans MGMA research released yesterday suggests that the overall readiness of the industry to meet the Oct….
Is Big Data Getting Too Big?
In the Age of Digital Medicine, Big Data is Big News and Big Business Yesterday, Tom Sullivan, Editor at Government HealthIT, and reporting from his…