Surgical Information Systems ("SIS" or the "Company"),a leader in perioperative information systems, announced today that Norwest Equity Partners ("NEP"), a leading middle-market equity investment firm, has acquired the Company from Vista Equity Partners ("Vista"). The current SIS executive team, led by Ed Daihl, Chief Executive Officer,will remain in place following this investment. Clients and associates will benefit from the resulting accelerated delivery of new, innovative software
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CMS 2011 ICD-10 GEMS Updated
The 2011 ICD-10 CM and PCS have been released. The 2011 ICD-10-CM files below contain information on the new diagnosis coding system, ICD-10-CM, that is being developed as a replacement for ICD-9-CM, Volumes 1 and 2.
ICD-10-CM Quick Reference Guide [PDF, 484KB]
2011 Diagnosis Code Set General Equivalence Mappings [ZIP, 761KB]
2011 Reimbursement Mapping Guide [PDF, 59KB]
2011 Reimbursement Mappings - Diagnoses [ZIP, 197KB]
2011 Code Descriptions - Long Format, Table Format, and
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Astadia on Healthcare Integration in the Cloud
Corey Vander Jagt, Dir or Product Marketing at Astadia, winner of an InnovatioNEXT award, discusses the healthcare integration work that his systems integration company has been building on the Pervasive DataCloud on the Amazon Web Services platform.
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ONC Issues Final Rule for Permanent Certification Program Highlights
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued a final rule to establish the permanent certification program for health information technology on Monday.
The final rule will be published in the Federal Register on Jan 7th and the National Coordinator will use the permanent certification program to authorize organizations to certify EHR technologies beginning on January 1, 2012.
Highlights of the permanent certification program
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Additional EHR certification bodies named
In recent weeks, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has named three additional electronic health record (EHR) authorized testing and certification bodies, aka ONC-ATCBs. The new organizations are ICSA Labs, a security product testing and certification division of Verizon Business based in Mechanicsburg, Pa.; SLI Global Solutions Inc., a Denver-based risk management firm; and Arlington, Va.-based Surescripts LLC, a national e-prescribing network. Those organizations join
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2011 Key EHR Dates Deadlines
Here is a list of a few key EHR incentives deadlines for 2011
Jan. 3, 2011 — Registration for the Medicare EHR incentive program begins.April 2011 — Attestation for the Medicare EHR incentive program begins.May 2011 — Issuing of Medicare EHR incentive payments expected to begin.July 3, 2011 — Last day for eligible hospitals to begin their 90-day reporting period to demonstrate meaningful use for the Medicare EHR incentive program for federal fiscal year 2011.Sept. 30, 2011 — Federal fiscal
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