(Editor's Note: This guest blog was written by Chris Giancola, principal at CSC Healthcare Group.)In November, the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General released an early assessment of the oversight of the national electronic health records adoption incentive program, more formally known as the meaningful use of certified ...

(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.) Kathy Kenyon, JD, senior policy analyst for the Office of the National Controller for Health Information Technology, framed several key issues relating to EHRs and Health Information ...

The much anticipated Supreme Court Decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 2010 (ACA) act will fortify many health IT initiatives already under way. ''I think it is very positive for the health IT initiatives,'' said Leslie Ann Fox, MA, RHIA, FAHIMA, chief executive officer of Care Communications Inc., Chicago, and longtime ...

(Editor's note: This guest blog was written by Chris Giancola, principal consultant at CSC Global Healthcare Group, Falls Church, Va.) This is an exciting time for health information exchange. The objectives for meeting Stage 2 of the meaningful use of electronic health records were shared with the public March 7, and the 60-day comment period on ...

If you attended the 2012 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition, held in Las Vegas at the Venetian Sands Expo Center from Feb. 20-24, you were part of a record-breaking event. As of Friday morning, attendance at HIMSS12 reached 37,032 attendees, surpassing the HIMSS11 attendance figure of 31,500 attendees. They participated in more than 300 ...

Editor's Note: For an executive summary of IVANS 2012 Healthcare Provider Survey, contact Cecile Locurto at Cecile.Locurto@ivans.com or (203) 905-7330.IVANS Inc. a national health information exchange, announced in a Feb. 20 press release that while 42 percent of healthcare providers surveyed currently use either electronic health records or ...

The rate of electronic health record adoption among priority primary care providers is rising rapidly in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Southern New Jersey, according to directors of the regional extension centers in those states. The directors presented an update to attendees of the Delaware Valley Healthcare Information Management System Society's ...

(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 ...

American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) President Bonnie Cassidy recently announced that the organization is working proactively to grow jobs for members while helping to fill the estimated 50,000 new positions that will be needed to implement the U.S. health system's transition to electronic health records (EHR). AHIMA ...

MRO Corp., a provider of disclosure management applications and services for healthcare organizations, announced it is participating with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in an electronic submission of medical documentation (esMD) gateway pilot program. Through this partnership, MRO will work closely with CMS and the ...