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AMA Asks Speaker Boehner to Kill ICD-10

The American Medical Association is asking House Speaker John Boehner to help stop implementation of the ICD-10 code sets and call on the industry to assess an appropriate replacement for ICD-9 ...

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AMA Plans to Fight ICD-10

HDM Readers React to AMA's Fight with ICD-10

ICD-10: Here Comes Trouble

Coding
HIMSS Preview: Davies Award Winning Doc Has an EHR Story to Tell

Jim Holsinger wasn't always a family doctor. Handed a golden parachute after years as a food marketer, he fulfilled a lifelong dream by heading to medical school in his mid-40s.

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HIMSS12 Preview: New York City Goes Big with EHR-Driven Public Health

Clinical Business Intelligence Makes its Presence Known at HIMSS12

HIMSS12 Preview: Managing the ‘Continuum of Intrusion’

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Regulation: Ideals vs. Reality

I started my career as a reporter covering Chicagoland city government beats, where regulation and government incentive programs were front-and-center issues for every board or committee ...

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HIT Leaders Get Cracking on Regulatory To-Do Lists

In Defense of ObamaCare

10 Tech Issues Meriting C-Level Attention
GAO: HHS Lacks Monitoring Controls for Quality Measures

A new report from the Government Accountability Office finds the Department of Health and Human Services lacks appropriate controls to monitor contracted work by the National Quality Forum to deliver to HHS national health care quality measures.

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FDA Expands Clinical Trial Disclosures

Survey: Many Patient Harm Events Unreported

Privacy Boot Camp Targets Senior Execs

Policy & Regulation
5010 – Ready or Not, Here It Comes (Part 2)

Jackie Griffin: It’s 2012 and HIPAA 5010 is officially here, yet many providers are still encountering difficulties as they transition their claims to be 5010 compliant. Following is a list of six additional changes that may increase claims rejections if not addressed.

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5010 - Ready or Not, Here It Comes

HIPAA 5010 Survival Guide

Billing Group Defines HIPAA 5010 'Readiness'

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Consultant Describes Rocky Road Through the Health System 11:57AM ET

Bi-Partisan Report Seeks Effective Federal HIT Spending 11:46AM ET

ONC Seeks Easy EHR Accessibility, Discharge Apps 06:04PM ET

Mostashari: 2012 Will be a Big Year for HIT 12:10PM ET

Survey: U.S. and Foreign Docs Differ on Many I.T. Benefits 12:06PM ET

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A Difficult Balancing Act

Granting access to protected health information must be weighed against an overarching need to know.

Data Security

Policy & Regulation

Health Care Trends for 2012

The PricewaterhouseCooper's Health Research Institute has released its annual forecast of top health care trends in 2012 ...

Disease Managenment

Testing Texts to Improve Medication Management

Front Porch, an operator of retirement communities, will test using cell phone texting to improve adherence to medication regimens.

A pharmacist takes a 30-day prescription and inputs it as four weekly prescriptions. A fraud ring obtains a list of Medicare patients who recently underwent hospital outpatient procedures and starts submitting phony claims. True stories.

Health Info Exchange

Building One Big Pipe

Providers are trying to build one unified communications backbone as the next step in simplifying how staff-and devices-tap into data.

CMS Picks Pioneer ACO Participants

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has selected 32 delivery systems to participate in the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization program authorized under the Affordable Care Act.

Chronic Care

New Shared Savings Program for Home Care

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has a launched the Independence at Home Demonstration program for up to 10,000 chronically ill Medicare beneficiaries.