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By Mike Miliard | 12:49 pm | April 11, 2016
Family Medical Specialists in Florida is using care management technology to get paid under CPT code 99490, and the practice has already gotten buy-in from almost every eligible patient.
By Bernie Monegain | 12:29 pm | April 11, 2016
Lahey Health, which provides care in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, will tap Quartet's technology-enabled model of mental healthcare to support better patient outcomes and lower costs.
By Jessica Davis | 11:51 am | April 11, 2016
Multi-agency collaboration aim to help app developers stay aware of consumer privacy and safety protections, while still enabling innovation, officials say.
By John Andrews | 11:12 am | April 11, 2016
Advanced analytics and machine learning technologies are critical to pinpointing problems in large datasets that could be losing providers money. That’s why some organizations are investigating every single denied claim to better understand trends. 
By John Andrews | 10:41 am | April 11, 2016
Hospitals are starting to hire younger, more diverse people to handle the new coding. The shift will likely benefit healthcare organizations in time, but it won’t happen overnight.  
By John Andrews | 09:18 am | April 11, 2016
The healthcare industry appears to have successfully withstood the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10. But are the sighs of relief premature? Is another shoe waiting to drop?
By Jessica Davis | 05:56 pm | April 08, 2016
The Government Accountability Office discovered vulnerabilities in three states and said that other state-run health insurance exchanges may be at risk too.
By Mike Miliard | 12:35 pm | April 08, 2016
Defense Department is on track to rollout new electronic health records software in the Pacific Northwest later in 2016, and officials are calling the project a new beginning toward interoperable, safe and secure patient records.
By Mike Miliard | 12:04 pm | April 08, 2016
The office is seeking feedback on what elements of information flow to measure, what data sources to include in interoperability work, and which metrics to best address MACRA requirements.
By Jessica Davis | 11:45 am | April 08, 2016
Pfizer and IBM are teaming up to combat Parkinson's Disease with analytics and the IoT, the companies announced Thursday.