February 20, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
"This is a bit ironic today," Sue Bowman said, pointing to a CMS-borrowed slide stating that the compliance deadline for ICD-10 is October 1, 2013. "The government threw a big curveball toward many presentations."

February 15, 2012 | Michelle McNickle
Recent CMS comments about the possible delay of ICD-10 have pushed the transition further into the spotlight. No matter what happens, though, both sides can agree the conversion will, sooner or later, require providers to prepare in advance for productivity issues, vendor conundrums, and other hurdles. Kerry Stark offers five tips for the implementation of ICD-10.

February 15, 2012 | Bernie Monegain
When acting CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner said Feb. 14 that CMS would take another look at the timeline for converting from the ICD-9 billing code set to ICD-10, she unleashed a barrage of response across the healthcare industry.

February 6, 2012 |

Michelle McNickle

Kelly Mehler

We asked our readers, tweeters and LinkedIn users to weigh in on some of the most ridiculous codes they know of. They spotlighted 10 of the most outlandish types of ICD-10 codes.

January 23, 2012 | Michelle McNickle
It's easy to make predictions about health IT for the year to come, but what if someone asked what your IT wishes were for 2012? Wendy Whittington, MD, a practicing pediatrician and chief medical officer of Anthelio Healthcare Solutions, lists her top 10 IT wishes for 2012.

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 EMR, 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 HIPAA 5010, ICD-10, Meaningful Use 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.

March 8, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
This webinar covers some of the aspect of how analytics can be leveraged in the reform impacted areas of ICD10 adoption, Member Cost Transparency, CRM Analytics, Value Based Benefit Design and Provider Performance Management.

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.

August 25, 2011 | Carl Natale
ICD-10 implementation is a problem that affects how physicians will practice medicine. But just how to you persuade them that they need to get involved in the training and planning now?

October 3, 2011 | Industry News Release
Today at the American Health Information Management Association conference, Edifecs introduced Edifecs ICD-10 Testing, a product-based solution that eliminates the healthcare industry’s biggest barriers to effective and efficient ICD-10 testing. While most testing solutions focus on a resource-intensive consulting services approach, Edifecs ICD-10 Testing enables healthcare organizations to automate much of their ICD-10 testing, which can reduce the time and resources needed for testing, improve how well healthcare organizations can predict operational and financial results, and more effectively integrate trading partners into the testing process.