A Call To Action for a Nationwide Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure
New ONC Paper Released By Karen B. DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc Today we are pleased to release Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A…
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Understanding the Meaningful Use Hardship Exception
Applying for a Meaningful Use Hardship Exception By Joy Rios, Partner at Practice Transformation Twitter: @askjoyrios What is the Meaningful Use Hardship Exception? Penalties for…
Successful Results from CMS ICD-10 Acknowledgement Testing Week
Additional Testing Scheduled for Next Year By Niall Brennan, Acting Director, CMS Offices of Enterprise Management This past March, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid…
A Letter to the ONC Staff from Dr. DeSalvo
Moving into the Next Chapter The following is an email sent to the ONC staff from the National Coordinator Karen DeSalvo, MD on Friday, May…
Four Ways to Keep Up With Connected Healthcare
Challenges Presented by the Reality of Connected Healthcare By Edward Keiper, President and CEO of Velocity The world of healthcare continues to evolve into greater connectivity,…
Claims Data – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
By Robert Rowley, MD, co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Flow Health Twitter: @RRowleyMD As we move towards building a universal patient-centered data platform in…
Reporting Once for Multiple Medicare Quality Reporting Programs
New Resources Explaining How If you are participating in multiple Medicare quality reporting programs in 2014, there is a new interactive CMS tool that will…
Another HIPAA Breach, Another Lesson
OCR’s Continued Use of Settlements By Matt Fisher Twitter: @matt_r_fisher On Wednesday, May 7th, the Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) for the Department of Health…
CMS and ONC Release NPRM Allowing CEHRT Flexibility and Extending Stage 2
CMS and ONC Communication CMS and ONC released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would allow providers participating in the EHR Incentive Programs to…