Breaking News: CMS and ONC Stage 3 Final Rule Will Advance EHR Interoperability
CMS and ONC today released final rules that simplify requirements, add new flexibilities for providers, and advances EHR interoperability.
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Breaking News: CMS and ONC Stage 3 Final Rules Released; Includes Comment Period for MIPS
CMS and ONC today released final rules that simplify requirements and add new flexibilities for providers. Also included in the regulations is a 60 day comment period on Merit Based Incentive Payment Systems (MIPS).
MGMA 2015 Annual Conference
Interact with medical practice executives, administrators, physicians, vendors, industry experts and powerful speakers; share challenges and discover the right benchmarks, operational improvements, quality measures and solutions necessary to become and remain a MGMA high-performing practice.
Transforming Clinical Practices Initiative
HHS has announced the 39 networks participating in the CMS Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative which is designed to support more than 140,000 clinician practices over the next four years.
National Health IT Week October 5-9 2015
Many of us may have encountered a medical situation where a family member or loved one’s life was saved by early detection, new drugs, or a new procedure. Contrary to these more obvious technological medical advances, health IT is quietly advancing medicine.
GAO Report Looks at Nonfederal Efforts to Help Achieve EHR Interoperability
EHR Interoperability is viewed by many industry stakeholders and agencies as a key factor towards improving health care delivery and outcomes. To date, however, the exchange of health data from one system to another has been limited.
CIOS Are Ready for ICD-10
It’s been a long road to get to this point, but today the nation’s healthcare system takes a major step forward in being able to capture more detailed data about patients and their conditions. ICD-10 has nearly five times more codes than were used in ICD-9. Building more robust medical records should ultimately result in more efficient and better quality care.
Health Insurance Industry Consolidation
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing of the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights “Examining Consolidation in the Health Insurance Industry and its Impact on Consumers” on Tuesday September 22, 2015. Aetna and Anthem CEOs testify.
EHR Incentive Program Status Report August 2015
CMS has released the most recent numbers for the EHR Incentive programs. Here are some Program-to-date highlights from this latest CMS report – August.