The Top Three Healthcare Challenges Facing HIM in 2018 [Sponsored]
Emphasis on the Triple Aim in healthcare—improving care, improving population health, and reducing costs—has forced the industry to seek solutions for some of its most vexing challenges. In a recent...
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Carequality Seeks Industry Partners to Build FHIR Governance Structure
Carequality, an industry leader in health information exchange, is seeking volunteers or partners in creating a governance structure using Health Level Seven International’s fast healthcare...
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CMS and ONC Release Proposed Rules on Data Exchange and Interoperability
Federal health officials have released their long-awaited proposed rules to improve the interoperability of health information, which they hope will support seamless and secure access, exchange, and...
View ArticleSurvey: Patients Say Data Exchange Vital for Healthcare
Having the right health information at the right time in the right place has been the ideal goal for health information management (HIM) professionals for some time. It appears that the vast majority...
View ArticleONC Releases Draft Trusted Exchange Framework
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has released a draft of its long-awaited Trusted Exchange Framework, which aims to improve the interoperable exchange of health information...
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Proposed VA Rule Change Allows Release of Patient Records to HIEs Without...
The Veterans Administration (VA) has proposed changing a VA-specific patient privacy rule to allow the release of patient records to eligible community providers and health information exchanges (HIEs)...
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Trump’s Proposed Budget Seeks to Eliminate AHRQ, Slash OCR and ONC Funding
Major cuts to healthcare industry oversight agencies are suggested in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 budget proposal released by the Trump Administration this week. Included in the proposal is the total...
View ArticleTrump Administration Announces Initiative to Tackle Health Record...
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma on Tuesday announced several new Trump Administration initiatives aimed at tackling complex electronic health record (EHR)...
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CMS: Providers Should Get Rid of Fax Machines by 2020
Federal health officials announced their goal this week to eliminate fax machines from physician offices by 2020. In a speech Monday at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information...
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Developers Release Electronic ROI Prototype Tool
AHIMA has contributed to the development of a new tool that helps simplify and streamline patients’ requests for their medical records. The Health Record Request Wizard prototype tool was released on...
View ArticleThe Top Three Healthcare Challenges Facing HIM in 2018 [Sponsored]
Emphasis on the Triple Aim in healthcare—improving care, improving population health, and reducing costs—has forced the industry to seek solutions for some of its most vexing challenges. In a recent...
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Carequality Seeks Industry Partners to Build FHIR Governance Structure
Carequality, an industry leader in health information exchange, is seeking volunteers or partners in creating a governance structure using Health Level Seven International’s fast healthcare...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CMS and ONC Release Proposed Rules on Data Exchange and Interoperability
Federal health officials have released their long-awaited proposed rules to improve the interoperability of health information, which they hope will support seamless and secure access, exchange, and...
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