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Health IT Business News – Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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 the [...]
Consumer Groups Say Any Reboot of EHR Incentives a Mistake
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 CMS [...]
ONC Offers Five Online Training Courses on Interoperability
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 exchange, [...]
CMS Issues Updates on EHR Incentive Questions
FAQs Updated by CMS on EHR Incentive Programs The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) maintains a FAQ database on questions submitted for answers having to do with provider programs. From time to time more guidance or rule changes occur to necessitate updated answers in the database. Here are some of the latest updates to questions from the database [...]
WEDI Seeks Participants for New 2013 Workgroups
Selects Co-Chairs New 2013 WEDI Report Workgroups The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is a non-profit organization established in 1991 by Health and Human Services (HHS). WEDI’s mission is to improve the use of health information technology and reduce healthcare system costs. In 1993, WEDI released an original report that provided the healthcare industry [...]
HIE Use Increases Among US Doctors
Accenture Annual Survey Finds HIE Increase Accenture is a leading management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company with offices and clients worldwide. There healthcare services are helping from the back office to the doctor’s office. Accenture recently announced the results of their annual healthcare survey. The survey was conducted online to 3,700 doctors across eight [...]
Upcoming Virtual Health IT Events for Providers
Educational Webinars for EPs Take advantage of these upcoming online educational events. The webinars are all intended for eligible professional and their practices. They are free of charge so register today. For other Health IT events, conferences, or summits visit our HIT Calendar. Learning Lunch Webinar: Understanding value-based plans, pay-for-performance, and ACOs When: May 21, [...]
Latest Provider Updates from CMS
CMS Important Dates and Timelines The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is the Federal agency under the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) which administers Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. The CMS EHR Incentive programs are currently open programs for eligible professionals and hospitals to receive incentive payment [...]
Health IT Business News – Thursday, May 16, 2013
Today’s Business News McKesson has announced its expanded, nationwide roll-out of its McKesson Gives Back program, a philanthropic initiative designed to recognize and reward physician practices that provide unreimbursed healthcare to America’s neediest citizens. Initially launched in November 2012 in select cities, the program is now available to physicians and clinics across the United States [...]
It’s Official – Senate Confirms Marilyn Tavenner As CMS Administrator
Tavenner First Permanent CMS Administrator Since 2006 After a brief bump in the road to confirmation Marilyn Tavenner was voted in as yesterday as the first permanent CMS Administrator since 2006. Tavenner was appointed to serve as Acting Administrator in December of 2011 when Dr. Donald Berwick stepped down. The 91-7 Senate vote reflects the bipartisan support for [...]
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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