February 14, 2013 Mark Hagland
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One day after the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based CHIME named Russell P. Branzell its incoming chief executive officer, Branzell spoke with HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland regarding his acceptance of the CHIME CEO position, and his aspirations for CHIME as an organization going forward.
February 6, 2013 Frank Myeroff
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Over the past year, my colleagues and I have worked with numerous companies and healthcare facilities and based on their needs and our experience, some things are changing in the way that top talent is recruited, contracted and hired. Here are five healthcare recruiting trends that we see emerging for 2013.
January 28, 2013
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With massive change sweeping across healthcare, there has never been a time in which internally driven innovation has been more important. That’s why it is our privilege and pleasure as the editors of Healthcare Informatics to be able to recognize innovation pioneers every year through our Healthcare Informatics Innovator Awards program.
January 28, 2013 David Raths
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What does a technology platform for accountable care look like? What tools do organizations need to allow them to integrate clinical, claims, patient-reported and public health data into a patient-centric data model? Healthcare Informatics recently interviewed several chief information officers (CIOs), chief medical information officers (CMIOs), and consultants involved in creating accountable care organizations (ACOs), and a consensus seems to be developing about the areas of infrastructure they need to bolster.
January 11, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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On Jan. 7, James Turnbull, chief information officer (CIO) at the Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health Care (UUHC), was named the 2012 John E. Gall, Jr. CIO of the Year Award. Recently, he spoke with HCI Assistant Editor Rajiv Leventhal to talk about his role as CIO and the current and future state of health IT.
January 8, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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A new report from the Orem, Utah-based research company, KLAS, found that providers are reassessing their go-forward health information management (HIM) strategies accompanying ICD-10 to address new challenges around organizational consolidation or expansion, electronic medical records (EMRs) and other HIM technology implementations.
December 21, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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What an exciting year we had in health IT. It was my first complete one at Healthcare Informatics and I think I picked a good one. There was big-time policy news, a record-breaking HIMSS conference, and a plethora of interesting health IT leaders and cutting-edge projects, all helping push this industry into a new direction where quality is the standard. Looking back at the year that was, I think five moments stand out for me personally.
December 6, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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New research from the Orem, Utah-based KLAS indicates that provider pressures to meet meaningful use and ICD-10 regulatory requirements while also cutting costs have driven growth of the revenue cycle services (RCS) market. The report, Revenue Cycle Services: Which Firms Deliver Big Returns?, looks at the various reasons why more providers are outsourcing revenue cycle services, with bottom-line cash improvement and process improvement as the top benefits cited by providers.
November 13, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Chicago-based physician advocacy group, the American Medical Association (AMA) had a policy-making meeting this week and recognized the ability to integrate next-generation genome sequencing technologies into a clinical setting. The AMA said it supports “regulatory policy that protects patient rights and confidentiality, and enables physicians to access and use such diagnostic tools as clinically appropriate.”
August 28, 2012 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
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Christmas came August 23rd this year for those of us health IT policy wonks. And our presents were so complex we were still trying to figure out how to make it work the next day. I am, of course, talking about Meaningful Use Stage 2 (also trending on Twitter as #MUS2). Stage 2 final regulations were issued by CMS and ONC this Thursday at 2:30pm ET and CHIME Advocacy HQ has been in a frenzy since.
August 24, 2012
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In announcing a final rule on administration simplification around the establishment of a unique health plan identifier, the Department of Health and Human Services on Aug. 24 also confirmed the shift to Oct. 1, 2014 of the required date of compliance with the transition to the new ICD-10 coding system.
July 30, 2012
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According to a survey conducted by Firstsource Solutions USA (Louisville, Ky.), a revenue cycle solution provider, healthcare finance executives are placing a renewed focus on developing accountable care organization (ACO) partnerships after the Supreme Court upheld President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. The survey, of 100 professionals in the healthcare finance industry, found that close to half (49 percent) of respondents said developing accountable-care partnerships should be the top priority for providers.
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