Senate Passes Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, Pushes ICD-10 Compliance Date Back
Delay of ICD-10 Now in the Hands of the President It’s been a whirlwind few days for the healthcare industry. Last Thursday the House of…
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New HHS Security Risk Assessment Tool
HHS Releases Tool to Help Providers with HIPAA Compliance The following is communication from HHS and ONC. A new security risk assessment (SRA) tool to…
Health IT Issues that Deserve a Second Read – March
Top Guest Posts of the Month One of the ways that HITECH Answers is different from other media sites is the sense of community. The…
Lean Management Healthcare Principles
Where is the Lean? By  Sean Carey Twitter: @esseeconsulting While information about lean healthcare is rapidly expanding, from books to conferences to blogs, long-term care predictably…
Health IT Business News – Thursday, March 27, 2014
Today’s Business News CareCloud announced the availability of its new billing rules platform, CareCloud CollectiveIQ. This advanced collection of automated billing rules — built in part…
Applying the Principles of Krav Maga to Your ICD-10 Preparations
Preparing for ICD-10 By Ric Sinclair, Head of Product, ZirMed Twitter: @Zirmed ICD-10 is often described in scary terms—a potential disaster, a perfect storm, an angry…
West Health Institute and ONC Issue Call for Action to Drive Interoperability
White Paper Summarizes HCI-DC 2014 With Guidance on Driving Interoperability The Gary and Mary West Health Institute and the Office of the National Coordinator for…
AHRQ Primary Care Workforce Facts and Stats
Primary Care Workforce Facts and Stats Series The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is one of the agencies within the Department of Health…
Why Healthcare is Ripe for Entrepreneurship
The Advent of New Business Models and Consumer Demand By Andrew Litt, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Dell Healthcare and Life Sciences Twitter: @DrAndyLitt Admit it. When…