A CMS spokeswoman has official announced the new effective date for ICD-10 compliance will be October 1, 2015.
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Incorporating Better Functions into EHRs Will Help Reduce Health Disparities
To advance the goal that federal health IT policy facilitates better care, better outcomes and lower costs for patients and families, the Consumer Partnership for eHealth (CPeH) provided comments this week on the draft 2015 Edition of Electronic Health Record (EHR) Certification Criteria, released by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) in February.
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CMS Meaningful Use Incentive Payments Tops $22.9B As of March 2014
As of March 2014, more than 371,000 health care providers have received $22.9 billion in meaningful use incentive payments for participating in the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs, according to the latest CMS data.
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10 Steps to Maintaining Health Data Privacy in a Changing Mobile World
iHT2’s research report provides health data privacy best practices for healthcare organizations to protect themselves from security breaches and identify theft.
With stolen EHR charts selling for as much as $50 per chart on the black market, healthcare organizations are increasingly vulnerable to cyber-attacks as the use of web portals for health information exchanges becomes more commonplace. Just last week, two stolen laptops lead to nearly $2 million in HIPAA fines by the HSS. To prevent
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Practice Fusion Partners with Merck on Population Health Management Initiative
The average American doctor sees 2,000 patients per year. On paper, each patient’s information is locked, and the doctor has no ability to look across their patient population to see who's in need of critical care.
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Medfusion Ends Relationship with Allscripts Due to Unresolved Payments
Medfusion announced today that due to unresolved payment disputes, its relationship with Allscripts has ended.
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In-Depth: A Guide to Healthcare Data Formats
Phillip Burgher, Director of Integration Services at Wellcentive provides an in-depth breakdown of the strengths and weaknesses of healthcare data formats.
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NextGen Healthcare and Mirth To Power First Statewide Behavioral HIE
NextGen Information Systems, LLC.,a provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, announced today it along with its sister company, Mirth are successfully powering the first statewide behavioral HIE (health information exchange) in the nation; Behavioral Health Information Network of Arizona (BHINAZ).
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ICD-10 Delay to 2015: Congress Did the Right Thing
Dr. Edmund Billings shares his insights on the ICD-10 delay to 2015
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Health IT & Care Coordination Tops List of Patient Safety Concerns
Data integrity failures associated with health IT systems and poor care coordination leads ECRI Institute's 2014 list of top 10 patient safety concerns.
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