Here are a couple examples to help you learn the ICD-10-PCS code set. MORE

This Week in Government Health IT ... MU payments soar beyond $9 billion in November, mHealth momentum, overbearing legal system, tweaks to Stage 2, ICD-10 regulation myths demystified, and more. MORE

I'm in DC for IHE meetings Tuesday and Wednesday, and giving a session at the 2012 mHealthSummit Wednesday afternoon on Trends on Mobile Interoperability and Standards. I scheduled my travel to attend the IHE educational session held on Monday, but decided to take advantage of by mHealthSummit badge to take look at the conference instead. MORE

The cliche "The devil is in the details" can sum up the debate surrounding ICD-10 implementation. MORE

While there are at least two sides to every story, one of the more one-sided stories in health IT is the degree to which e-prescribing has taken hold across the healthcare sector. MORE

This week in Government Health IT ... the mHealth Summit, NeHC's new tool, CDC builds out BioSense, our new cloud computing eBook and more. MORE

Just two and a half years after hosting a workshop on the HIPAA Privacy Rule's de-identification standard, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued its "Guidance Regarding Methods for De-identification of Protected Health Information in Accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule." MORE

As we're winding up the year by celebrating the holidays, let's look ahead to 2013. It's going to be a busy year for ICD-10 project managers. MORE

A survey recently sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund found HIT use increasing throughout many industrialized nations, including the US. MORE

A lot of the literature on ICD-10 coding highlights how different it is from ICD-9 codes. This scares the beejesus out of a lot of healthcare professionals. MORE

What do you get when you combine a medical education company with an EHR vendor? MORE

In addition to security concerns, employees that sync mobile devices to the corporate network are actively defining new values pertaining to professional and personal lives. MORE

ICD-10 implementation can be a major disruption for many healthcare organizations. Except for healthcare payers. MORE

We’ve been looking pretty frequently at the issue of “patient engagement”, of late, because, well, the feds have dropped it squarely on the table with MU Stage 2. MORE

Standards development is not where the pace needs to increase. Rather, it's adoption and deployment that need to be happening more quickly. MORE

The campaigns long shadow over the elections. What would have happened to meaningful use and ONC had Romney won? HIX delay. And DoD, VA efforts to improve care for their patients. MORE

Will overall “health literacy” lead to greater use of PHRs? With MU Stage 2 having incorporated an element of patient engagement into the latest criteria, that question is weighing more heavily on stakeholders’ minds. MORE

Brian Ahier reports on the Congressional hearing examining health information technology standards and interoperability. MORE

One of the great fears of ICD-10 implementation is that it will create a documentation burden for physicians. Which is understandable since this blog often covers the increased specificity in the ICD-10 code set and a need to improve clinical documentation. MORE

Among some notable health IT news this week: InterSystems has opened it first office in Saudi Arabia, following what's expected to be a growth in the Middle Eastern country's health economy. And Bill Clinton's charitable organization has launched a new program backing health IT as a way to reduce rural health disparities. MORE