Health IT Business News – Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Today’s Business News The market for EHRs reached 20.7 Billion in 2012, a 15% increase from the 17.9 billion in 2011, according to a new…
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Electronic Health Information Exchange Governance Framework Released
Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Twitter: @Farzad_ONC Last year, ONC issued a Request for Information (RFI) to gather public input…
2013 WEDI Report to Tackle Health Information Exchange
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…
CHIME Responds To Senators Request for HITECH Reboot
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…
National Nurses Week 2013
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…
Health IT Business News – Monday, May 6, 2013
Today’s Business News Cloud-based EHR/PM developer CareCloud announced the company reported its 13th consecutive quarter of revenue growth for Q1 ending ending March 31. The company’s cloud-based platform…
AHIMA advises CMS to adopt coding guidelines
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 Introduced to Prohibit HHS from Mandating Move to ICD-10 Codes
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…
AHRQ Study to Look at Health IT Impact on Ambulatory Workflow
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…