HHS Idea Lab’s Buyers Club
Membership Has Its Privileges! By Mark Naggar, contract specialist for CDC Twitter: @HHSIDEALab Twitter: @MarkNaggar The HHS Buyers Club – What Is It? Welcome to…
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$800K HIPAA Settlement in Medical Records Dumping Case
HHS Issues Statement on Parkview Health System Settlement Parkview Health System, Inc. has agreed to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability…
HHS Releases New Data and Tools to Increase Transparency on Hospital Utilization
Data Can Help Improve Care Coordination and Health Outcomes for Medicare Beneficiaries With more than 2,000 entrepreneurs, investors, data scientists, researchers, policy experts, government employees…
WEDI Proposes Aggressive ICD-10 Transition Roadmap
WEDI Submits Letter to HHS The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), the nation’s leading nonprofit authority on the use of health IT to create…
CMS ICD-10 National Provider Call
ICD-10 Coding Basics Medicare Fee-For-Service The following is correspondence from CMS. On Wednesday, June 4, at 1:30-3pm ET, the Medicare Learning Network will be hosting…
HHS Publishes FDASIA Health IT Report
Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act By Brian Ahier HHS released a draft report that includes a proposed strategy and recommendations for a…
Historic Release of Data Gives Consumers Unprecedented Transparency
Transparency on the Medical Services Physicians Provide and How Much They Are Paid As part of the Obama administration’s work to make our health care…
New HHS Security Risk Assessment Tool
HHS Releases Tool to Help Providers with HIPAA Compliance The following is communication from HHS and ONC. A new security risk assessment (SRA) tool to…
AHRQ Primary Care Workforce Facts and Stats
Primary Care Workforce Facts and Stats Series The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is one of the agencies within the Department of Health…