(This sponsored blog was written by Lee Ann Bryant, associate product manager, HealthStream.) According to a recent survey conducted by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), an industry leader on the use of healthcare IT to improve the exchange of healthcare information, healthcare facilities as a whole are not on track for a ...

(Editor's Note: This guest blog was written by Jill Hoffman, managing editor of Executive Insight.)  At the third annual PharmEHR Summit April 17, leaders in the electronic health record (EHR) and pharmaceutical industries gathered to discuss the status of EHR adoption and potential collaboration between EHR and pharmaceutical ...

At the third annual PharmEHR Summit April 17, leaders in the electronic health record (EHR) and pharmaceutical industries gathered to discuss the status of EHR adoption and potential collaboration between EHR and pharmaceutical companies. The summit, hosted by PDR Network and held in Philadelphia's Wannamaker Building, kicked off with opening ...

(This sponsored blog was written by Lee Ann Bryant, associate product manager, HealthStream.)With small and medium practices in mind, CMS has put together the following checklist of ICD-10 tasks, including estimated timeframes for each task. Depending on your organization, many of these tasks can be performed on a compressed timeline or performed ...

(Editor's Note: This guest blog was written by Sondra Bruderer, MHA) If you were to walk into almost any healthcare organization's business office, you would probably find that staff and Accounts Receivables (A/R) follow the traditional payer-centric model. There is typically the ''Government Team'' (Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare), the ...

By Stephen McClure, marketing manager-content, HealthStream As the healthcare industry draws closer to the go-live date, ICD-10 remains a polarizing topic among healthcare professionals. While some healthcare organizations are actively preparing for a strategic rollout, others are, more or less, bracing for impact. In April 2012, CMS extended ...

(Editor's note: This guest blog was written by Jordan Battani, managing director of CSC's Global Institute for Emerging Healthcare Practices) Healthcare reform in the U.S. is rapidly moving in the direction of making providers more accountable for both cost and quality performance. The term ''accountable care'' is used to describe the new ...

By Lee Ann Bryant, associate product manager, HealthStream With so much uncertainty and overwhelming change associated with a transition to ICD-10, how could we ignore the potential risks involved? The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) offers some helpful steps that facilities can use to properly prepare and hopefully mitigate ...

By Lee Ann Bryant, associate product manager, HealthStreamAlthough nearly all healthcare providers are aware of the Oct. 1, 2014, deadline, studies show that most are unprepared for this transition. Recognizing that these changes require widespread education and planning initiatives beyond just the coding population, Centers for Medicare and ...

New list! CIO and CMO partnerships, HIMSS tweetups, patient-centered medical home infographic, and is iEHR really dead? Get daily tweets by following us @ExecInsight! Stephen Wilkins Infographic on patient-centered medical home http://shar.es/Y7SUX　#PCMH Ken Congdon Is iEHR really dead? http://ow.ly/hE0yd　 via @GovHIT Vala Afshar ...