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June Health IT Conferences and Events
Tweet Upcoming Health IT Conferences There are plenty of health IT conferences, conventions, symposiums and forums coming up this summer. You can check out our Health IT Events Calendar for the latest information. Here are some highlighted events, in the month of June, that may be destinations of interest. 9th Annual Government Health IT Conference & Exhibition [...]
HIPAA Compliant Emails: Myths and Facts
Tweet By Mike Semel Understand What Constitutes HIPAA Compliant E-mail Every day I get questions about HIPAA compliant e-mail, and many days I see or hear something that leads healthcare organizations and their business associates in the wrong direction. These Myths and Facts can help you make the right e-mail decisions. I have included links [...]
Health IT Business News – Thursday, May 23
Tweet Today’s Business News 4Medapproved.com has announced a new marketing and distribution partnership with UBM Medica US. 4Medapproved is an educational resource for the adoption of health information technology in practice management and associated healthcare communities. UBM Medica US is one of the largest media companies in the United States serving the healthcare industry. “As the U.S. healthcare system [...]
What’s Your Exit Strategy?
Tweet Ryan Ricks, DataSourceMD Follow him on Twitter @ryan_ricks One of the first questions pundits ask any time the U.S. gets embroiled in an international conflict is whether or not the current administration has an exit strategy. It is a valid question. Exit strategies are plans for withdrawing from an engagement without losing or compromising [...]
News & Updates from the Regional Extension Centers
Tweet Regional Extension Centers (RECs) Move Forward The HITECH Act authorized the Health Information Technology Extension Program and the ONC awarded 62 grants for Health Information Technology Regional Extension Centers (RECs) and a national Health IT Research Center (HITRC). The Centers offer local technical assistance, guidance, and information to support and accelerate health care providers’ [...]
HIMSS EHRA Responds to Meaningful Use ‘Reboot’
Tweet Vendor-led Association Comments on GOP Senators Concerns Responses to the release last month of a public letter and white paper from a group of six Republican Senators continue to make news. Last week HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association (EHRA) released public comments addressing the five major concerns outlined in the Senators’ white paper, Reboot: Re-examining the Strategies Needed [...]
Official Resources for Meaningful Use
Tweet Know the Federal Entities Supporting Meaningful Use Chuck Penoza Director, Data Consulting Group (DCG), Detroit. Health IT stakeholders such as EHR Developers, clinicians, researchers, and policy-makers have an overwhelming number of places to find information regarding Meaningful Use in general, and the Objectives and Clinical Quality Measures specifically. Some of these sources are official, [...]
Health IT Business News – Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Tweet Today’s Business News News broke today Mitochon Systems will be exiting the EHR market. Mitochon will end support of its free, web-based EHR in mid-June, saying in a statement posted on their home page that the company will concentrate on other business lines. Net Health, provider of clinical solutions for outpatient specialty care, announced [...]
Consumer Groups Say Any Reboot of EHR Incentives a Mistake
Tweet Argue Delay or Postponement of EHR Incentives Program Too Costly In April a group of six Republican Senators released a public letter questioning just how and where the HITECH Act funds are being spent. In the white paper accompanying the letter, Reboot: Re-examining the Strategies Needed to Successfully Adopt Health IT, the Senators outlined their concerns over the decisions [...]
ONC Offers Five Online Training Courses on Interoperability
Tweet Online MU Stage 2 Standards Courses Training modules on new standards implementation for Eligible Professionals (EPs) and Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) are now available from the ONC. The modules were developed to teach you how to implement the new standards included in Stage 2 of the EHR Incentive Programs on transitions of care, lab [...]
October 1, 2014, the health care industry will adopt the ICD-10 code set. While you should prepare for this transition, your medical billing, practice management and EHR vendor should be working hard right now with you to adapt your system. 
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