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AHIMA: Time to think about training - and keeping - your coders
February 22, 2012 | 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.
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S&I's Doug Fridsma on NwHIN enabling the next Amazon, eBay or Facebook
February 22, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
The picture of NwHIN comes into sharper focus at HIMSS12, as Doug Fridsma shares more details of the long-term intent.
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Query Health to demo 'round trip' at HIMSS12
February 21, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
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.
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AHIMA, HIMSS reassert ICD-10 vigilance
February 20, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
At HIMSS12 ICD-10 Symposium, industry associations explain the benefits of ICD-10, and the need for the new classification system.
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Survey finds consumers trust EHRs but landmines exist
February 16, 2012 | Mike Miliard
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.
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Virginia, Hawaii HIEs take shape with Direct messaging
February 14, 2012 | Mary Mosquera
Virginia and Hawaii prepare for first phase of statewide health information exchanges with Direct Project secure messaging.
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New York: Healthcare in local politics
February 14, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
Rockland County, N.Y. legislator Alden Wolfe speaks with Government Health IT about the effort to save a public health system via HHS grant money, bipartisan efforts at the local level and what the prospect of an administration change might mean to his constituency.
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PHRs will need more than data to flourish
February 13, 2012 | Government Health IT Staff
The promise of PHRs offering patients and providers easier access to records and streamlining care delivery is apparent, and new offerings will emerge throughout 2012, in some instances tapping government health data to better engage patients. What's left is for those patients and providers to actually use the software.
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New York to test ONCs Query Health standards
February 13, 2012 | Mary Mosquera
The Primary Care Information Project will pilot standards and a reference model for Query Health with the New York State Public Health Department.
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eHI's 4 recommendations for ACOs
February 10, 2012 | Diana Manos
Group suggests that without a strong IT base, accountable care organizations will struggle to meet their objectives.
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Gawande's Rx to change docs from 'cowboys to pit crews'
February 9, 2012 | Mary Mosquera
Physicians have long operated as autonomous problem solvers, but healthcare complexity and costs will drive change to act like systems. Atul Gawande outlines 3 key skills that only exist in limited pockets but are central to the transformation.
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Commentary: The unspoken ICD-10 risk of medical fraud
February 9, 2012 | Carl Natale
Some eighty percent of medical fraud, according to reports, is committed by providers, be that to improve their chances of reimbursement or because they feel entitled to money payers deny them. Will ICD-10 tempt them to further inflate claims?
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Best Practices to Deploy ECM Technologies: Ensure Decisions are Made Based on all the Information, not a Portion of it
October 11, 2011 | 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.
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'Meaningful Use' of the Nationwide Health Information Network: Lessons Learned from SSA and the States
March 14, 2011 | 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.
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
February 10, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
This Week in Government Health IT … When will we see the MU stage 2 rules, Political Malpractice, HIT jobs in demand but ONC workforce program grads not a match for HIEs, and more.
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
February 2, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
This Week in Government Health IT: A triptych of 2012 predictions about ACOs, HIE, and ICD-10, all rather bold.
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As Romney takes Florida, Gingrich forges ahead with 'Day One' ACA repeal
February 1, 2012 | 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.
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Healthcare 'flubs in Florida,' Santorum under the gun, Sebelius on Jon Stewart
January 24, 2012 | 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.
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
January 20, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
This Week in Government Health IT ... VC skyrockets in PHRs but speculation about Microsoft's HealthVault continues, Perry backs Gingrich, a look at Newt's long history with HIT, Vermont plans single-payer system, tips for HIEs, and ONCs new video contest.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
January 13, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
Talk with a Tea Party leader, ONC head on why meaningful use will soar in 2012, turning tablets into security tools, and Big Data inside the Beltway.
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HIE from a patient's perspective
January 11, 2012 | JoAnn W. Klinedinst, CPHIMS, PMP, FHIMSS
Looking toward, HIMSS12 JoAnn Klinedinst looks at what health information exchanges offer to patients, what different states are doing with HIEs, and how HIMSS can help HIT professionals create building blocks to overcome the remaining obstacles.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
January 5, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
GOPers fear of healthcare questions, with an eye on New Hampshire a lesson learned in Iowa, HHS accomplishments, HIPAA 5010, CMS Innovation Advisors, and more.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
December 30, 2011 | Tom Sullivan
No rest this season in the federal hit realm as CMS and OIG talk ACOs, fraud. A flurry of reflections, predictions, reasons EHRs need to mature, and the top mobile searches of 2011.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
December 23, 2011 | Tom Sullivan
Clueless doctors don't like sharing, HHS names Pioneer ACOs while other health org's remain uncertain about the model, federal health IT spending skyrockets, and Southeast Minnesota's use of NwHIN protocols to the benefit of both providers and patients.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
December 16, 2011 | Tom Sullivan
There's more to health IT than EHRs, Berwick's blastings, HAIs come into the picture, the HIX quandary. Are things in healthcare really so bad?
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Who moved my cheese ... err ... MC4?
December 6, 2011 | Lt. Col. William E. Geesey
A look at the Army's Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care unit's role in the hand-off taking place in Afghanistan and Kuwait.
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