June 27, 2012
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The U.S. Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs have reached an agreement with Salt Lake City-based 3M Health Information Systems to make the 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary (HDD) freely available as open-source content and software.
May 31, 2012 Mark Hagland
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The Advisory Board Company’s Ed Hock shares some of the learnings coming out of his organization’s work with client hospital organizations, which includes very granular modeling of the potential effects of the ICD-10 transition on reimbursement for specific hospital procedures and treatments
May 21, 2012 The Editors of Healthcare Informatics
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Healthcare Informatics, a New York City-based magazine providing leadership and strategy for healthcare IT leaders, is proud to officially announce the 2012 version of its unique, industry offering: the Healthcare Informatics 100, a compilation of the top health IT companies based on HIT revenues from the most recent fiscal year. For this year’s list, McKesson Technology Solutions (Alpharetta, Ga.), was the top ranked company, marking the fifth year in a row that the diversified healthcare IT software solutions vendor has sat atop the list.
April 10, 2012
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St. Paul, Minn.-based 3M has acquired the Bethesda, Md.-based CodeRyte Inc., a clinical natural language processing (NLP) technology and computer-assisted coding software provider. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
April 2, 2012 Mark Hagland
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CSC's Erica Drazen shares exclusively with HCI's Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland her analysis of, and detailed figures on, the very large number of healthcare reform- and meaningful use-related deadlines facing hospitals and physicians in the several years. The bottom line: very, very few in the industry realize either the sheer volume or the level of complexity of these overlapping deadlines and time-sensitive requirements.
March 9, 2012 Joe Bormel, M.D.
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One of our most important considerations in acceptance and usability is to provide the flexibility users need to customize the system to meet their unique demands and organizational policies. To accomplish this goal, we often depend on those users to guide us in creating the functionality they feel is important to derive the greatest benefit for their hospitals and patients.
March 7, 2012
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Healthcare voice and languages provider Nuance (Burlington, Mass.) has announced it will acquired Transcend Services (Atlanta, Ga.), a provider of transcription and clinical documentation services. The move, Nuance says, will accelerate access to and expand its customer base within the small- to mid-size hospital market.
March 6, 2012 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
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As the Senior Director of Advocacy aptly pointed out in a recent blog posting, the notice of proposed rulemaking for Stage 2 Meaningful Use was released late last week – and if this is news to you, you’re probably living under a rock. At this point, most people know that Eligible Hospitals & CAHs are responsible for 14 core objectives and 5 of 10 menu objectives (19 objectives in total) for Stage 1 Meaningful Use. For Stage 2, regulators are proposing 16 core and 2 of 4 menu objectives. At this point you might be asking yourself, “I thought Stage 2 was going to be harder?” Well it is.
March 2, 2012 Healthcare Informatics Editors
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February was a big month in healthcare IT. There was HIMSS12, the biggest healthcare IT conference in the industry. This year more than 35,000 people attended the show in Las Vegas, talking about a wide variety of issues including The Office for the National Coordinator for Health IT, Dr. Farzad Mostashari, M.D.’s announcement of the proposed rule for Stage 2 of meaningful use. In addition, The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Service, Kathleen Sebelius announced a delay to the date organizations must comply with the ICD-10 coding set by.
February 27, 2012
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During the past 18 months or so, I have talked with many hospital CIOs and HIM professionals. I’ve been impressed with how so many organizations have accepted the transition to ICD-10, and have had plans to do so in place for some time. My impression is that hospitals are moving right along toward meeting the transition’s October 2013 deadline. And according to the surveys I’ve read, most feel they will make it. But now, CMS may move that deadline out, which has the potential to severely complicate training and implementation cycles. There was a lot of buzz about a delay at HIMSS last week, and that is the topic of my blog.
February 23, 2012 John DeGaspari
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In anticipation of the publications of the Stage 2 meaningful use rule tomorrow, CIOs and other health industry leaders expressed concerns over the timelines for ICD-10.
February 6, 2012 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
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Washington was abuzz this week with the release of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) 2012 outlook. According to the annual report, CBO’s regular baseline (which is set based on current law) would result in $3 trillion of accumulated deficits from 2013 through 2022.
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