(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: This blog posted by Jill Hoffman originally appeared on Executive Insight.)  The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has submitted a letter this week to Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius regarding her recent announcement that HHS will initiate a process to postpone the ...

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 ...

It’s hard to look your best when you are wearing too many hats.  While the business of health care struggles in a depressed economy and a revenue cycle containing a growing number of under and uninsured, pending government regulations such as HITECH, the Affordable Care Act, HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10 conversions have produced, for many,  a ...

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: The following guest blog is written by Adrianne O'Brien, editor of Executive Insight.) I'm blogging from the Lone Star State today, here in San Antonio for CHIME's Fall CIO Forum. Michael Leavitt, former governor of Utah, HHS Secretary and administrator of the EPA, now founder and chairman of Leavitt Partners, was one of the ...

(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 ...