The healthcare industry isn’t always known as an eager early adopter of new technologies, but it seems to be making an exception for the Internet of Things: a loosely interconnected web of...
There is no question that developing a codified set of broadly applicable data standards to improve EHR interoperability and health information exchange is hard work – a challenge that the Office...
Support for Stage 3 meaningful use is ebbing to an all-time low as medical societies and prominent stakeholders continue to push back against the program’s ambitious – and some say untenable...
Healthcare organizations navigating the transition to value-based care are faced with a dilemma: They must invest in the infrastructure for population health management (PHM) even as their...
After years of watching two of the nation’s largest healthcare systems flounder in front of Congress as they attempt to explain their struggles to meet federal health data interoperability goals,...
Up until a few years ago, healthcare organizations have been content to relegate their big data analytics projects to the IT department or a few tech-savvy physicians with big plans for their...
When it comes to actively blocking health information exchange and interoperability, EHR vendors are innocent until proven guilty, industry representatives from the HIMSS EHR Association (EHRA) asserted...
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) has announced the formation of a new workgroup designed to address the health information exchange issues surrounding the collection, dissemination,...
At the KLAS Keystone Summit earlier this month, executives from a dozen major electronic health record vendors have agreed to develop an objective measurement framework for health data interoperability,...
Healthcare executives won’t be getting very far with their job searches if they don’t have some serious big data analytics skills to bring to the table, according to the latest Black Book...
Healthcare stakeholders who need a little more time to gather their thoughts about the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) may take advantage of an extended comment period, CMS said in a...
The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Indian Health Service (IHS) have received accreditation by the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC and DirectTrust that recognizes...
ICD-10 is a learning process. Far from being a one-and-done crisis that started and ended on October 1, the industry is going to be spending the next few months – or years – coming to...
Is ICD-10 a success so far? It depends on who you ask. As the healthcare industry closes out its first full business week under the new code set, anecdotal evidence and preliminary claims...
While it isn’t the Stage 3 meaningful use delay that many stakeholders are anxious to see, HHS has finally allowed the healthcare industry to view and comment on the flexibility provisions for the...
Chief Medical Officers and Chief Financial Officers must put aside their differences and embrace a spirit of collaboration if they are to extract maximum value from big data analytics and value-based,...
It’s happened. ICD-10 is here. After years of arguments, delays, trepidation, and downright hostility from healthcare providers deeply concerned about their revenue cycles and coder...
The health information management profession goes far beyond the simple - or not so simple - act of coding a medical record for billing purposes. As the healthcare industry begins to recognize the...
The vast majority of larger hospitals that have been outsourcing their clinical documentation improvement (CDI) and computer assisted coding (CAC) activities for nine months ahead of the ICD-10...
NEW ORLEANS - Physicians who are struggling to muster up the enthusiasm to continue the practice of medicine may not feel like adding a mountain of big data to the mix will do much to help them...
