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Tavenner confirmation triggers applause from industry
Healthcare associations and organizations said her career experience and progress as acting administrator of CMS make Marilyn Tavenner a strong leader to drive the policy changes in Obamacare.
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Mostashari: 3 tactics to redesign care and reap HIT
In a rousing and impassioned speech, ONC's chief said that America is halfway through digitizing healthcare and five percent of the way through transforming workflows to take advantage of the infrastructure. Achieving that will require new roles of the entire care team.
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MU EHR payments rocket past $13.7B
Nearly half of all eligible professionals are registered for the meaningful use EHR incentive program, according to a CMS official.
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Q&A: Why IT security grows more complex
With digitization and interconnected devices come HIPAA compliance costs and a web of security issues. Organizations should thus be devoting extra scrutiny to vendors and designing security architectures from the get-go, one cyber-security analyst suggests.
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April 24
Vermont HIE as a foundation for health reform
Vermont's HIE, managed by the nonprofit Vermont Information Technology Leaders, is seen as an enabler for the coordination and quality assurance the state will require of providers, as it moves to a largely single payer system in 2017.
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April 05
Medicaid consumer service and HIE
The inexorable trend towards consumer self-service and Illinois' public utility HIE as a foundation for coordinated care.
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    The 9th Annual Government Health IT Conference & Exhibition
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May 14, 2013
HIMSS Media announces launch of Future Care community
May 14, 2013
HIMSS Media announces launch of Future Care community
April 09, 2013
Mississippi Medicaid Selects MedeAnalytics’ Accountable Care Solution
March 04, 2013
VMware Accelerates Healthcare Reform with New vCloud Solution
March 01, 2013
Health Language Selected by Department of Defense to Augment Data Warehousing Projects
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Survey finds Medicaid expansion popular even in Southern states
Nearly two-thirds of adults across 5 of the America's most conservative states are in favor of expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. MORE
HIMSS EHR Association fires back at GOP Senators calling for MU reboot
Point by point, the EHRA addresses the Senators' 5 main areas of concern about the meaningful use program. MORE
VA expanding new strategy for claims backlog
Along with scaling its digital claims processing system, the VA is trying to get more veterans to file fully developed claims -- putting more documentation responsibility on vets, but promising a faster response at the same time. MORE
WEDI, state collaboratives prep ICD-10 initiative
WEDI aims to align state-based organizations to streamline the conversion, reduce costs and create best practices around ICD-10 implementation. MORE
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May 21, 2013
Benjamin Harris

Welcome to Future Care

Future Care, a new HIMSS media site, will be a reservoir of news and analysis – all centered on the future of our healthcare landscape. MORE
May 21, 2013
Carl Natale

Can you handle ICD-10 training for part-time coders?

ICD-10 could prove to be tricky for small practices that do not typically retain full-time medical coders. MORE
May 20, 2013
Carl Natale

CMS updates ICD-10-PCS code set

When the U.S. transitions to ICD-10 on October 1, 2014, these are the codes that will be used for inpatient procedures. MORE
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