While the ICD-10 implementation deadline was in limbo for multiple weeks, HHS recently came forth to propose a concrete one-year extension of the original start date, meaning that healthcare providers would have until October 2014 to get the necessary coding metrics in order.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted the full set of proposed measures that eligible providers, hospitals, and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) would need to use to
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The Utah Department of Technology Services announced this week that it was investigating the security breach of a new server housing Medicaid claims records for the state’s Department of Health.
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Although digitizing medical records affords healthcare providers with the resources to provide patients with the most applicable treatment, having such a broad cross section of this confidential data available online presents a heightened possibility of a data breach.
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Since late 2010, when an article in the Journal of Surgical Radiology noted that surgeons at Georgetown were accessing patient X-rays and other vital data in real time using iPads
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The United States Supreme Court began debating on Monday the potentially landmark lawsuit regarding the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s sweeping health-care overhaul. While the first of three days of
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A new survey conducted by Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) suggests a lack of preparedness for ICD-10
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According to Information Week senior writer Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, the criteria established under meaningful use 2 will serve to enhance care by increasing the degree of engagement between healthcare providers and their patients.
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By implementing a software suite, a medical tech company can help facility managers qualify for large federal grant incentives that would provide the resources needed to avoid the kind of glaring medical errors from which Brookdale is suffering.
Many facility managers fear the delayed deadline will actually have an adverse reaction on their practice considering the cost of neutralizing all the puzzle pieces already mobilized to successfully adhere to ICD-10 on time.
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