AMA Board Issues Report Saying Moving Directly to ICD-11 Not an Option
Moving Directly to ICD-11 Fraught with Pitfalls The American Medical Association has a released a report from its Board of Trustees voicing opinion that skipping…
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Leading Organizations Comment On Stage 3 Meaningful Use
Comments On Stage 3 Meaningful Use Yesterday the American Medical Association (AMA), the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the…
Health IT Business News Wrap-up – July 29, 2012
This Week’s Health IT Business News This week’s business news saw a familiar name. The Commonwealth Fund has named former National Coordinator for Health IT…
Meaningful Use Exemption for Older Physicians
Should Retirement-Age Physicians Be Exempt from the Meaningful Use Program? Amanda Guerrero Twitter: @meanusenetwork An April Health Affairs study has confirmed what many healthcare IT…
Health IT News: This Week’s Posts on EHR Adoption Rates, SCOTUS Ruling
This week’s posts on EHR Adoption Rates, SCOTUS Ruling on ACA and more… SCOTUS Upholds Affordable Care Act Back in March the Supreme Court heard…
American Medical Association Takes Up ICD-11 Cause
AMA Adds New Wrinkle to ICD-10 Delay: ICD-11 Tom Sullivan Editor at Government Health IT Twitter: @GovHITEditor ICD-10 proponents are not going to like this…
Proposed ICD-10 Delay of Compliance Date for One Year
Comment Period Ends for HHS Proposed Rule Comment period for the HHS proposed rule published on 4/17/12 comes to an end today. The proposal among…
Delaying ICD-10
ICD-10 Compliance Date in Question On February 16th Secretary Sebilus of HHS announced they will “initiate a process to postpone the date by which certain…
Availability of Medicare Data for Performance Measurement
Final Rule Released on Medicare Data Claims Last week CMS published the final rule on how Medicare claims data can be released and used. Part…