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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’ [...]
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 [...]
CMS Issues Updates on EHR Incentive Questions
Tweet 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 [...]
HIE Use Increases Among US Doctors
Tweet 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 [...]
Upcoming Virtual Health IT Events for Providers
Tweet 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 [...]
Latest Provider Updates from CMS
Tweet 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 [...]
FAQs for Navigating IT Adoption
Tweet Health IT Adoption FAQs Resources Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) are a good resource when you find that question you were looking for. There are several FAQ resources out there that focus on health IT adoption including the EHR Incentive Programs, meaningful use, and HIPAA compliance. Here are a few we have found from the [...]
HL7 Standards for Meaningful Use
Tweet HL7 Spring Meeting in Atlanta Health Level Seven (HL7) International is an organization that develops standards for exchanging electronic health information. The organization is ANSI accredited. ANSI is the American National Standards Institute which oversees the creation and use of guidelines that impact most business sectors. ANSI also accredits standards developing organizations. You can [...]
This Week’s Highlights on HealthcareNOWradio.com
Tweet Tune in to HealthcareNOWradio.com HealthcareNOWradio.com is an Internet radio station operated by HITECH Answers. The station provides a variety of 30 minute educational programming on healthcare and health IT topics. Listeners can tune in every weekday from 2 pm to 5 pm ET for the weekly airing of the station’s hit shows. To here [...]
ONC Health IT Dashboard Updated with 100,000+ New Data Points
Tweet ONC Health IT Dashboard Adds New Quick Stats Feature The ONC Health IT Dashboard is an open government project from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. The ONC maintains the Dashboard as a platform to distribute their program performance measures tracking health information technology adoption, including electronic health records (EHR) and others enabling [...]
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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