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…
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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…
Demonstration Projects, Private Insurer Invests in EHRs, and Berwick’s Resignation
Recovery Room 12/5/11 In our recovery room posts we highlight events and news that have happened and didn’t report but still think are interesting. Will Medicare’s Demonstration Project program…
CMS delays 5010 enforcement but not HIPAA compliance date
HIPAA Compliance Still Required of CE’s Thursday, November 17, 2011, CMS released a statement on looming compliance for ASCX12 Ver 5010. The Office of e-health…
AMA App Challenge
AMA Announces App Finalists The challenge was to come up with a new idea for a medical app that could improve the daily lives of…