Editor's note: Associate Editor Mark McGraw filed this blog post while covering HIMSS10 in Atlanta. Dr. David Blumenthal, national coordinator for health information technology, addressed an overflowing crowd of HIMSS attendees at this morning's keynote address. The timing seemed ideal, less than 24 hours after Dr. Blumenthal led an ONC Townhall ...

The eagerly awaited Final Rules for adoption of ICD-10 will be published in the next few days, and the implementation date has been bumped from 2011 to 2013. The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) released a brief statement today applauding the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on approving the Final Rules for ...