May 9, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
AHIMA has said it before, and it is saying it again. Delaying ICD-10 deadlines is not a good idea. However in a comment letter filed Wednesday with the Department of Health and Human Services, the organization said it would continue to work with HHS to ensure the delay would be as short as possible.

April 24, 2012 | John Andrews
While the provider community heaves a collective sigh of relief over the anticipated extension of the ICD-10 implementation date, another important deadline is right behind it. What happens to the state health insurance exchange requirement in the Affordable Care Act, however, may depend on how the Supreme Court rules on the individual mandate part of President Obama’s healthcare program.

April 23, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
As they prepare to convert to ICD-10, nearly half of providers nationwide are planning to purchase an inpatient computer-assisted coding (CAC) solution within the next two years, according to a new report from KLAS.

April 17, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
Venture capital funding in the healthcare information technology sector for Q1 2012 totaled $184 million in 27 deals, the highest number ever recorded, according to Austin, Texas-based consulting firm Mercom Captal Group.

April 11, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
The newly-proposed ICD-10 compliance deadline of Oct. 1, 2014 won't please every healthcare organization. What it does accomplish, though, is to give them a bit of leeway in their project planning.

November 22, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
EMR conversion is inevitable. The impacts to your workflow and efficiencies in care delivery remain serious obstacles to successful <a href="/directory/electronic-medical-record-emr" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">EMR</a> adoption. Effective strategies during EMR implementation can lessen the blow and drive adoption during periods of transition. Participants will learn about: •Lahey Clinic's experience with successful EMR adoption •IDC's prescription for getting near term value today, while creating a sustainable approach for the long term •How to close the gap between traditional records and the EMR

October 13, 2011 | White Papers
This paper, based on a roundtable session featuring Liz Johnson of Tenet Healthcare Corp., examines how leading hospitals and health systems in the country are implementing mobile point of care, sharing best practices and lessons learned, to deliver real-time, high-quality care anywhere.

September 6, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
No doubt there's a learning curve when a practice firsts adopts and implements an <a href="/directory/electronic-medical-record-emr" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">EMR</a>, just like any other type of transformational technology. But once providers get over that initial implementation hump, they can start seeing value not only at the time of care, but on many harder-to-manage aspects of how they care for patients.

April 12, 2011 | White Papers
In an effort to be compliant with <a href="/directory/hipaa-5010" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">HIPAA 5010</a>, <a href="/directory/icd-10" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">ICD-10</a>, <a href="/directory/meaningful-use" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">Meaningful Use</a> and other regulations, healthcare organizations are making substantial IT investments in new technologies and infrastructure upgrades. However, with deadlines looming, many of these organizations risk gross overspending across the next 18 months. This white paper takes a close look at compliance challenges, likely areas of vendor overpayment and ways that healthcare organizations can prevent IT overspending on the path to compliance.

February 17, 2012 | Kelly Mehler
In Friday's Health IT Social Media Tweetchat, sponsored by HL7 Standards, tweeters pondered whether the ICD-10 delay should be skipped and moved onto ICD-11. Either way, the topic is heating up on all social media channels. Here is a recap of what Twitter users and health IT experts are saying.

February 9, 2012 | Carl Natale
Even large hospitals with large healthcare information technology (HIT) departments will have to work with vendors to implement ICD-10 coding.

December 9, 2011 | William Sacks
While healthcare organizations have been preoccupied with EHR meaningful use, ICD-10 and HIPAA 5010, a lesser-known set of regulations that could have a dramatic effect on research institutions, and which will also require technological solutions, was finalized this year.

September 29, 2011 | Carl Natale
I'm going to break a bit out of my area to talk briefly about electronic health records (EHR). But there's a parallel with ICD-10 implementation.

September 13, 2011 | Carl Natale
A benefit of being one of the very few countries in the world to not implement ICD-10 coding yet is that we can learn from how the other countries did it. Canada is one of those countries where we can find lessons.

October 27, 2011 | Industry News Release
he U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, a $5.3 million contract to provide remediation to the VA’s Health Administration Center (HAC) Cache System to address new medical coding standards. This is a two-year contract with three optional tasks.

September 26, 2011 | Industry News Release
OptumInsight (formerly Ingenix), a leading provider of health care information, technology and consulting services, announced that 30 leading U.S. hospitals will implement its Actus® computer-assisted coding (CAC) solution.