February 22, 2012
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Tom Sullivan
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.
February 16, 2012
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Tom Sullivan
HHS made it official: The ICD-10 compliance deadline will be pushed back. The WHO, meanwhile, has said it plans to make ICD-11 available in 2015 -- which creates a potentially strategic intersection for U.S. healthcare companies.
February 15, 2012
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Tom Sullivan
Wendy Whittington, CMO of Anthelio Healthcare Solutions, explains what impact a delay could have on the broader healthcare industry if CMS ease its stance on the ICD-10 compliance deadline.
February 8, 2012
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Tom Sullivan
Amid making a run for Congress in a state actively opposed to health reform, Missourian Ed Martin shifted his sails to take on the Attorney General instead -- and is tacking on the issue of healthcare.
February 6, 2012
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Tom Sullivan
Is there a civil war already underway between healthcare industry associations? And why hasn't the federal government properly assessed if ICD-10 is even sustainable for all but the largest providers?
February 3, 2012
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Diana Manos
In the state with our nation's shortest life-expectancy, all the Republican candidates face something of a quandary: How to entice voters with talk of cutting healthcare reform and services in a land ranking low in care quality measures.
February 2, 2012
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Mary Mosquera
Legislation is needed to streamline medical license portability among states to accelerate telemedicine in the absence of market changes.
February 2, 2012
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Chris Anderson
The Medical Group Management Association recommends that the Department of Health and Human Services take several steps to ease the HIPAA 5010 transition, beginning with another 90 day enforcement-free deadline extension.
February 2, 2012
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Kaiser Health News www.kaiserhealthnews.org
Critics say Washington is moving too slowly on regulations and guidance for health insurance exchanges, leaving states in a time crunch wherein they must act on imperfect information.
January 30, 2012
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Mary Mosquera
Florida is one of three states that did not take advantage of enhanced federal funds to upgrade Medicaid eligibility and enrollment systems.
January 30, 2012
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Tom Sullivan
Soundbites and slogans don't approximate the whole PPACA picture, but many U.S. citizens base their understanding -- and potentially their votes -- solely on what politicians tell the public.
January 27, 2012
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Mary Mosquera
Tavenner pushes for reform efforts started by her predecessor Berwick and expresses urgency to get the work done in the remaining 24 months.
October 11, 2011
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On Demand Webinars
In this Web seminar, learn firsthand from five healthcare organizations how, after integrating Perceptive Software enterprise content management (ECM) products, they are realizing cost and time-saving benefits enterprise-wide. The customer panel will share lessons learned and best practices for deploying ECM technology with their business and health information systems.
September 29, 2011
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On Demand Webinars
The role of IT is becoming increasingly pivotal in how healthcare organizations deliver products and services. Healthcare providers must not only achieve HIPAA compliance and meaningful use while still providing world class care and services, they must also wrestle with how to reinvent themselves in order to deliver on accountable care in the near future.
Learn how you can deliver the future of healthcare...virtually anywhere.
September 8, 2011
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On Demand Webinars
The HITECH Act of 2009 accelerated the adoption and deployment of EHR/EMR systems. However, along with the many benefits, this trend also introduces greater risk of privacy and security breaches. The emerging rise of cloud-based healthcare services similarly brings many benefits but reduces visibility and control over sensitive data. Addressing these challenges requires continuous monitoring across data, systems, and applications in modern healthcare networks.
August 23, 2011
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White Papers
Transformative changes such as healthcare reform mandates, advanced stages of meaningful use criteria and conversion from ICD-9 to ICD-10 code sets require healthcare providers’ IT assets to be flexible, scalable and interoperable in order to respond. Learn how user virtualization provides the ability to react quickly while improving user experience and operational efficiency.
August 23, 2011
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White Papers
Records of events taking place in your environment are being logged right now into event logs and Syslog files across your servers, workstations and networking devices. This log data needs to be collected, stored, analyzed and monitored to meet and report on regulatory compliance standards such as FISMA or HIPAA.
August 23, 2011
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On Demand Webinars
The face of healthcare is transforming at a blistering pace. Simply staying abreast of the changes is a daunting task leaving little time for the innovation necessary to stay competitive in the marketplace. The future of the medical infrastructure lies in the power of IT convergence. The converged medical infrastructure integrates servers, storage, networking, management software, services, power and cooling into one flexible, modular, standards-based platform to give you the power to handle any workload, anywhere, anytime. Learn how to futureproof your medical information with the converged medical infrastructure.
April 1, 2011
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On Demand Webinars
This session will provide you with an overview of the broad HealthVault ecosystem, discuss how healthcare organizations can leverage it to better support their patients, and provide an update on how HealthVault is supporting the Office of the National Coordinator's (ONC's) Direct Project.
March 14, 2011
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On Demand Webinars
The Social Security Administration (SSA) was the first federal agency to use the NHIN as a tool to gain rapid access to electronic health information. In its partnership with MedVirgina, the Richmond-based regional Health Information Exchange (HIE), the partners used NHIN technologies to speed the delivery of clinical health records of patients awaiting medical disability decisions. In accelerating the process from weeks to days, the project often dramatically improved the quality of life of individual patients as well as eliminated costs and overhead associated with manual record-keeping.
February 17, 2012
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Steve O' Keefe: My Cup of IT
Looking for savings in Federal IT. Cooking up Cloud. Dicing up your Data Centers. Not to make light of these strategic plays, but they’re not exactly putting food on the table today. So, how can Uncle Sam ring the dinner bell on RoI? A new study, “The Virtualization Vacuum,” points to $30 billion in savings by 2015. And, “what’s the secret sauce,” I hear you ask – plain old virtualization.
February 16, 2012
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Carl Natale
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen G. Sebelius confirmed Wednesday that they will change the ICD-10 timeline.
February 14, 2012
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Tom Sullivan
Preaching to the converted, CMS acting administrator tells AMA meeting attendees that CMS wants to take another look at ICD-10 timing.
February 1, 2012
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Tom Sullivan
Gingrich stays on point that the initial step toward dismantling 40 percent of President Obama's government on his first day would be repealing health care. Romney maintains he would enable states to opt out.
January 27, 2012
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Tom Sullivan
This week in Government Health IT: ONC contests and initiatives, the Care Innovation Summit, appealing EHR incentive denials, reasons why President Obama largely avoided healthcare in SOTU, social media reactions, and more.
January 24, 2012
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Tom Sullivan
The GOP candidates are in full swing this week leading up to the Florida primaries, which does not necessarily mean sticking to facts about healthcare. And Secretary Sebelius is a guest on The Daily Show.
January 17, 2012
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Tom Sullivan
Remaining GOP candidates have one less reason to discuss healthcare in depth, now that the former Utah Governor, who signed a law to overhaul the state's health system, has suspended his campaign.