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08/14/2018

Patients can't easily get their health data. Microsoft, Amazon and others want to change that. 

08/09/2018

CMS and the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics released changes to the ICD-10-CM guidelines for fiscal year 2019.

08/09/2018

Friday’s conviction of Francel Rodriguez on conspiracy to commit health fraud completed a four of a kind convictions from Billing USA, a medical biller that helped local clinics try to pull off $11.6 million of healthcare fraud.

08/09/2018

Providers recently urged policymakers and healthcare leaders to consider Quality Payment Program improvements, such as fully implementing MIPS and adding more Advanced APM options.

07/18/2018

The agency's proposed changes to the Quality Payment Program drew a mixed response from industry stakeholders.

07/12/2018

Research shows policy reforms may be needed to close the performance gap

07/12/2018

A survey of internal medicine physicians has revealed low levels of familiarity with the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), with some respondents also believing that MIPS requirements could lead to unintended consequences.

06/26/2018

06/19/2018

A lack of device encryption will cost a Texas-based cancer treatment center $4.3 million in civil monetary penalties from the Department of Health and Human

05/09/2018

First HIPAA-eligible, ONC-certified, low-cost EHR in the Public Cloud

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05/09/2018

The Improving Access to Behavioral Health Information Technology Act now heads to the House, where there is similar bipartisan legislation.

04/30/2018

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Practical steps all providers can take today

04/26/2018

As health IT observers and stakeholders have begun to unpack the 1,883-page proposed rule on meaningful use rebranding that CMS released on Tuesday, discussion has emerged on if the government will be forcing providers to participate in health information exchange activities.

04/26/2018

The next phase of meaningful use is to create an ecosystem of APIs and apps, end data blocking and give patients choices about what tools they use to access their medical information.

04/25/2018

In its latest Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System rule changes announced April 24, CMS renamed its meaningful use program again in an attempt to reflect its emphasis on achieving interoperability.

04/16/2018

A new ONC data brief outlines patient portal access and use among patients. The brief also discuses digital health adoption and mHealth use patterns.

04/10/2018

With Alabama and South Dakota recently becoming the last two states to adopt breach notification laws, notification processes become more complicated, says privacy

04/04/2018

A new study showed that medical billing complexity is high across all insurers, but Medicaid fee-for-service had the greatest share of claims challenged and claim denial rate.