New Report Indicates ICD-10 Delay Has Hurt Provider Readiness
Providers Show Lack of Progress from October 2013 Survey The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), has released its findings from a August 2014 ICD-10…
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Final Rule issued for 2014 EHR Incentive Program
Providers offered ‘flexibility’ By Joy Rios, Managing Partner at Practice Transformation Twitter: @askjoyrios There should be laws against publishing important program updates late afternoon on the Friday before…
HITRUST Cyber Threat Briefing
Monthly Briefing Recap By Joy Rios, Managing Partner at Practice Transformation Twitter: @askjoyrios A total of 112 incidents of cyber threats were reported in the past month, according…
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…
$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…