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ICD-10's ten-year reign of fear

 Tom Sullivan October 03, 2011
Shortly after the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) recommended that the United States adopt ICD-10, the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) assembled a session on the code scheme for its annual conference. The last-minute addition was so late, in fact, that the MGMA did not have time to include it on the printed agenda, and the only available time slot was 7 a.m.
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A new age of biosurveillance is upon us

 Gregory Goth October 23, 2011
The CDC will overhaul BioSense in November, amid a wave of new data-sharing tactics rolling in from other fields that promises to bolster surveillance methods and architectures.
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The Top 5 roadblocks HIEs face

 GHIT Staff November 14, 2011
If health information exchanges are to fulfill their promise to remake healthcare locally, much work remains, obstacles must be overcome. Here are the five most paramount.
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Not by quality metrics alone

 John Morrissey November 07, 2011
Even the most robust technology itself cannot improve healthcare outcomes, as Vanderbilt University Medical Center discovered on its way to lowering Ventilator-associated pneumonia rates – saving money and pateint’s lives.
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DoD and VA pursue PCMH model

Ephraim Schwartz October 31, 2011
The agencies are harnessing health technologies to improve doctor-patient interaction by reaching patients – and their health problems – right where they reside. Here’s how they plan to transform that from buzzword into better care.
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The HIT of ACOs, part 2: Beyond health information exchange

 Dr. John Loonsk October 17, 2011
Will accountable care organizations follow the lead of HIEs in analyzing data across participating providers, or surpass them?
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ONC's path forward: 'Patient engagement'

 Mary Mosquera October 09, 2011
Now that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has the attention of physicians and hospitals to improve care through the meaningful use of electronic health records, ONC intends this autumn to emphasize strategies for reaching out to consumers to participate more in their healthcare.
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ICD-10's day of reckoning: HIPAA 5010 compliance deadline

 Tom Sullivan September 28, 2011
A seemingly smaller but inevitably important milestone – HIPAA 5010 – stands between healthcare entities and ICD-10, both on the calendar and in IT back offices. And that deadline promises to measure the industry’s progress, or lack thereof, toward the forthcoming code sets.
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Q&A: Frank Clark: Trials and tribulations of unlocking patient data

 Tom Sullivan September 28, 2011
Did you hear the one about the lawyer who calls on an HIE? Most likely not – because it’s no joke.
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Editor's Letter: Our new era of forest-friendly growth

 Tom Sullivan September 30, 2011
With this Government Health IT issue, we are sprouting upward from our print magazine roots and blossoming into the esteemed ranks of Web-based healthcare and technology publications.
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