AHIMA Develops a Best Practice Primer for Mobile Health Apps To help consumers navigate mobile health apps, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) created…
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WEDI Committee and Workgroups to Create Framework for HIE The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is a non-profit organization established in 1991 by Health…
Delivering Quality & Innovation in Patient Care In 1954, 100 years after Florence Nightingale’s mission to Crimea, the first National Nurse Week was observed in…
CHIME Recommends Delaying Stage 3 Last month a group of six Republican Senators released a public letter questioning just how and where the HITECH Act funds are…
By Ron Sterling Sterling Solutions The HIPAA Security Rules allow you to communicate with emails that include Protected Health Information as long as the patient…
EHRs Can Lead to Better Coding, More Accurate Reimbursement Electronic Health Records (EHRs), when used correctly, produce more accurate documentation leading to more complete coding, and…
Bill HR 1701 Seeks to Halt ICD-10 Compliance Last week at AHIMA’s ICD-10 CM/PCS Summit, Denise Buenning, Deputy Director of CMS’ Office of E-Health Standards…
Patient-Reported Health IT Technology and Ambulatory Workflow The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is conducing a study to look at the impact on…
Advancing Interoperability and Health Information Exchange On March 7, 2013 CMS and HHS filed a notice in the Federal Register seeking input on policy and program…