The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are expected to post on Thursday the proposed rule for stage 2 of meaningful use of EHRs.

Stage 1 meaningful use will be extended to 2014, and Stage 2 proposed rules -- soon to be published on the ONC site and in the Federal Register -- get bullish on interoperability.

Past president Bonnie Cassidy explains that regardless of the forthcoming new ICD-10 compliance deadline, healthcare organizations need to map out their training efforts and then be sure to retrain those coders, particularly once they've achieved certification.

The super registry would list patient registries in the model of ClinicalTrials.gov, which follows use of new therapies for research.

The picture of NwHIN comes into sharper focus at HIMSS12, as Doug Fridsma shares more details of the long-term intent.

Measures and incentives should be embedded in public reporting programs in every layer of the healthcare system, NQF's CEO said.

Panelists in the session 'A new era in DoD/VA health IT' discuss how VLER and iEHR are evolving to meet the demands of a rapidly-diversifying military patient population.

The Military Health System "likes to foster innovation," an official said during a HIMSS12 session Tuesday. Particularly when it comes to improving patient care.

The mobile health tools are designed to be easy and fun to use to encourage healthy behaviors, especially for individuals who may not be tech savvy

ONC and the NY Department of Health and Mental Hygiene are planning to demonstrate a query against i2b2 at HIMSS12. They will translate the query twice, first into HQMF and then JavaScript, with the goal of being to enable public officials to get simple answers out of complex data sets.

Knowing how to respond when a data breach happens can make all the difference, said Mahmood Sher-Jan, ID Experts vp of product management.

Attendees' answers are a bit surprising in their collective disagreement with HHS' plans to push the compliance deadline for ICD-10 back again.

At HIMSS12 ICD-10 Symposium, industry associations explain the benefits of ICD-10, and the need for the new classification system.

States have expanded Medicaid rolls throughout the program’s history and have had flexibility in how to do it, AGs said in their brief.

American Health Information Management Association said healthcare industry should continue to press on with ICD-10 implementation.

HHS secretary cites dramatic increase in EHR adoption in a speech in the run-up to the release of the meaningful use stage 2 proposed rule.

EHRs are first step to learning health system, but "democratization of data" will fuel health IT research, testing and quicker implementations.

ONC expects to interview 10,000 individuals over five years to understand their attitudes towards EHRs and health information exchange.

The National Partnership for Women and Families (NPWF) highlights the fact that "patients and their families need to be at the center of efforts to modernize health care's information infrastructure," according to national coordinator Farzad Mostashari, MD.

With HIMSS12 next week, the organization announced on Thursday that it is subsuming the budding mHealth Summit.