New Interoperability Training Tools Focus on Stage 2 Criteria

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has launched a suite of electronic health records interoperability training tools.

CMS Data: 95% of Medicare RAC ‘Corrections’ Are Overpayments

Medicare Recovery Audit Contractors are increasingly successful at finding overpayments, but the amount of underpayments the contractors unearth continues to dwindle, according to data from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Intermountain Tracking Patients’ Cumulative Radiation Exposure

Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City now enables patients and physicians to access radiation histories and the cumulative radiation a patient has received.

HIT Vendor Round-up: Prognosis, HealthInfoNet, PracticeMax & McKesson

New leadership, an acquisition and milestones are among recent health information technology vendor announcements:

Using Analytics to Support an ‘Ambulatory ICU’ Model

The Stanford Coordinated Care project puts sophisticated I.T. tools to the task of monitoring and treating difficult populations of patients.

Controlling the Future of Archiving

Picture archiving and communications systems revolutionized medical imaging, digitizing examinations that used to be on film and archiving them in the PACS. But now many providers are moving from a PACS archive to an enterprise archive.

New Analytics Initiative for Consultancy Encore Health

Encore Health Resources, a Houston-based health information technology consulting firm, has launched a new health analytics consulting practice to help organizations design and implement their analytics strategies.

AHA Welcomes Senate Legislation to Rein in RACs

The American Hospital Association is supporting legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate to impose significant new restrictions on the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractors program.

Got an Idea? Learn How to Commercialize It

There remains plenty of opportunity for innovation in radiology and the best ideas come from those working in the trenches,

Separating Translation Research from Innovation

Translational research in radiology--moving new tools and therapies from the lab to the bedside, is the focus of the opening general session for SIIM2013, the annual meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine being held in early June.

The Task for PAC/RIS Leaders: Learn Analytics

The roles of picture archiving and communication system administrators and radiology information system administrators is changing as they need a new skill--data analyst.

University Settles with Feds After HIPAA Violations

Idaho State University, which did not conduct a HIPAA security risk analysis for more than five years--even after suffering a breach of protected health information--has agreed to pay $400,000 to the HHS Office for Civil Rights to settle allegations of HIPAA privacy and security rule violations.

New WEDI Program Facilitates State ICD-10 Cooperation

The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange has launched a new program for states to collaborate on reaching compliance with the ICD-10 code sets.

Feds: 2013 Goal for Meaningful Use Participation Already Met

As of April, the federal government has met its goal for provider participation in the electronic health records meaningful use program by the end of 2013, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

First Vendors Get Accredited for Direct Messaging Services

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission has accredited the first four vendors to meet newly developed best practices for providing secure messaging services using the Direct Project protocols.