(This guest blog was written by Bill Sinn, marketing director, healthcare practice, Pitney Bowes Software.) It's only three years since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law by President Obama, and the industry is already seeing huge changes. For instance, the U.S. has expanded the number of citizens receiving preventative care, ...

(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 ...

(Editor's note: This guest blog was written by Jill Hoffman, managing editor of Executive Insight.) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded National Government Services Inc. a $111 million contract to support the Next Generation Desktop (NGD) for the next 5 years. NGD has held the contract since the NGD's ...

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 ...

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 ...