The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), the nation’s leading nonprofit authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in healthcare information exchange, announced the release of its findings from its June 2015 ICD-10 Industry Readiness Survey.
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The NHHIO, a non-profit, announced that it has been awarded funds by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) as part of ONC’s health information technology (HIT) grant program.
Results of a comprehensive survey by the American Association for Physician Leadership ® and Navigant Center for Healthcare Research and Policy Analysis show widespread support for the U.S. Affordable Care Act among physician leaders nationwide.
Healtheway announced the organization has been renamed The Sequoia Project. Healtheway and its member-led board began the rebranding process after performing a multi-month evaluation of its mission and goals for the next decade.
The Gary and Mary West Health Institute commends Congress for passing legislation extending the Independence at Home (IAH) program, which demonstrated home-based care can significantly reduce spending and improve care for Medicare patients with chronic diseases.
After three years of operations, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported that the agency’s advanced analytics system, called the Fraud Prevention System, identified or prevented $820 million in inappropriate payments in the program’s first three years.
In collaboration with Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) unveiled a roadmap for the development of standards to support information governance (IG) in healthcare including national and international efforts to ensure interoperability among health information systems.
Health data security and patient engagement are top priorities for the nation’s hospitals, according to results of the 17th annual HealthCare’s Most Wired™ Survey, released by the American Hospital Association’s Health Forum and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).
Almost every industry — banking, travel, retail, education — gives customers powerful tools to manage their lives online. But in health care today, accessing information online is often a confusing and difficult process. Few patients know what to ask for or what information should be available to them, and not nearly enough health care organizations are equipped to meet their requests.