(Editor's Note: This guest blog was written from AHIMA's Health Information Integrity Summit by Sandra Kersten, MPH, RHIA, AHIMA director of HIM Solutions.) The American Health Information Management Association's Health Information Integrity Summit: The Quest for Safe, Usable, Quality Data in EHRs opened Thursday in Chicago with great insights ...

A press release issued by the American Medical Association states that the AMA and state and national medical specialty societies sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services expressing serious concern about an onslaught of overlapping regulations that affect physicians. The AMA cited the value-based ...

For the first time in years, information technology (IT) leaders at healthcare organizations did not identify a lack of financial support for IT as an obstacle to implementation. So what's the problem? According to the 23rd Annual HIMSS Leadership Survey, released on Tuesday, one-quarter of respondents said adequate staffing resources within their ...

(Editor's note: This guest blog is written by Jacqueline Thelian, CPC, CPC-I,  a healthcare consultant with Medco Consultants Inc. She is a certified professional coder, auditor, subject matter expert and sought after educator and author with more than 20 years' experience in medical coding and business management.) Currently, eligible ...

Get up-to-date and accurate information about the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs from CMS here. Visit the website to get specifics about the program and download the new tip sheets. Tip Sheets for Eligible Professionals: Medicare EHR Incentive Payments for Eligible Professionals -- This tip sheet describes which types of ...

(Editor's note: This guest blog was written by Scott Warner, MLT(ASCP), a laboratory manager and freelance writer.) There's an episode of The Simpsons in which Prohibition briefly comes to Springfield. By the end of the story the streets flood with booze, and Homer toasts atop a barrel, ''To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's ...

To mark the important role health information technology (HIT) plays in improving healthcare delivery in America, more than 170 partner organizations have joined together for National Health Information Technology Week, June 14-18. With the theme: One Voice, One Vision: Transforming Health and Care, the 5th Annual National Health IT Week kicked ...

With patients across the country voicing a growing desire for greater engagement in and control over their medical care, a new study involving patients in Boston, Pennsylvania and Seattle will examine the impact of letting patients see the notes that doctors record during and after their visit. Funded through a $1.4 million grant from the ...

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced $83.9 million in grants to help networks of health centers adopt electronic health records (EHR) and other health information technology (HIT) systems. The funds are part of the $2 billion allotted to HHS' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the ...

The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) submitted comments this week to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in response to the request for information, ''HIPAA Privacy Rule Accounting of Disclosures Under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act; Request for ...