Date: October 12, 2011
There is no doubt that the conversion to ICD-10 on October 1, 2013 will impact virtually every aspect of your organization. As a health IT professional, your organization depends on you to ensure that the transition is successful. But do you have the tools, resources, and the knowledge to ensure that your organization’s risks are minimized? Are you ready to report to your Board of Directors that your exposure to the many financial and administrative impacts of this
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WEBINAR: Cloud Computing in Healthcare: HIPAA, HITECH and Contracting Considerations
On September 21st of last month, Baker Hostetler, hosted a great webinar focusing on the main components of a Cloud Computing platform and its potential ramifications and risks for the healthcare providers, health plans, and business associates under HIPAA, the HITECH Act, and various other laws. The webinar's main focused on the healthcare and business considerations, contracting, negotiation, risk and liability aspects of a cloud computing platform. Also discussed is the common data breach
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Intel Healthcare Innovation Summit Webcast Series
Just a reminder to register for the Intel Healthcare Innovation Summit Webcast Series for three free, one-hour webcasts starting today through October 6th held at the following times, 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. EDT/ 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. PDT.
Register today for one, two, or all of these webcasts.
October 4 – The Healthcare IT Innovation Imperative
William F. Bria II, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, Shriners Hospital for Children
Eric Dishman, PhD, Intel Fellow and Global Director of Health
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HP Signs $172M Renewal to Manage Florida’s Medicaid Management System
Today, HP Enterprise Services has signed a $172 million dollar renewal contract with the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration to manage the state's Medicaid Management Information System. HP will help the state of Florida transition to a managed care environment and help control rising costs associated with pending program changes which includes implementing federal HIPAA 5010 requirements and supporting the move to ICD-10 procedure coding.
The agreement will extend HP's contract
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Intel Healthcare Innovation Summit Webcast Series
Join Intel for a free webcast series next week on healthcare IT innovation. The panels feature heavy-hitters in the health IT arena, including Todd Park, chief technology officer for the Department of Health, and include live Q&A sessions with the panelists. Other participants include:
· Eric Dishman, Intel Fellow
· Dr. Bill Bria, CMIO, Shriners Hospitals for Children
· Michael S. Blum, MD, associate clinical professor of medicine, medical director of information technology, UCSF
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Video: Healthcare on Cloud
A 2011 Gartner survey of chief information officers (CIOs) reveals that almost half of all CIOs expect to operate their applications and infrastructures via cloud technologies within the next five years. According to Gartner, “This change will necessitate that CIOs re-imagine IT and lead their organizations through a process of creative destruction.”
According to the survey, CIOs will have to think rethink several key factors:
Using IT to support growth and competitive advantage
Understanding
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Athenahealth Meaningful Use
Athenahealth has made it a company priority to guarantee that our eligible clients achieve and get paid for Meaningful Use. 100% of our clients are using the latest version of athenaClinicals, an ONC-ATCB-certified EHR, and we have dedicated significant resources, people and technology to helping clients reap the rewards from this federal incentive program. Watch Athenahealth's Meaningful Use support team in action.
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How to Measure the ROI of Healthcare Technology
Measuring ROI can be broken down into soft costs -- such as patient satisfaction and provider stress -- and hard costs -- those that can be calculated to show a financial return, like improved patient throughput, reducing errors, limiting provider liability and improving cash flow by stimulating faster reimbursements.
It's not uncommon to hear about significant returns in the millions thanks to better coding processes and prescription error reduction.
At one Massachusetts hospital network,
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HIMSS Healthcare IT Awareness Week Activities and Agendas
The Sixth Annual National Health IT Week kicked off today with a Capital Hill Steering Committee on Telehealth and Healthcare Informatics Technology Showcase. The annual collaborative forum where public and private healthcare constituents will work in partnership to educate industry and policy stakeholders on the value of health IT for the US healthcare system. There is no better time for the health IT community to come together under one umbrella to raise national awareness!
Comprehensive
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Selects 3M ICD-10 Conversion Software
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has selected advanced ICD-10 code translation technology from 3M Health Information Systems to assist the federal agency in converting systems, applications, and reports based on ICD-9 diagnosis and procedure codes into the language of ICD-10. The 3M ICD-10 Code Translation Tool will be used to streamline the code translation process and support ICD-10 transition planning at CMS headquarters in Baltimore, MD.
CMS has also licensed the
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