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By Mike Miliard | 12:02 pm | September 29, 2015
Joining elite company, Pennsylvania's Reading Health System is the latest provider to earn Stage 7 distinction from HIMSS Analytics, ascending to the top of the EMR Adoption Model.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:53 am | September 29, 2015
Refrain from finalizing Stage 3 meaningful use, implored 100 members of Congress in a September 28 letter to Shaun Donovan, director of the Office of Management and Budget, and HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell.
By Bernie Monegain | 10:04 am | September 29, 2015
We highlight six of the most talked about new products on display and available for demo at the 2015 AHIMA Convention and Exhibit.
By Diana Manos | 09:02 am | September 29, 2015
Every year HIMSS calls on Congress with requests specific to advancing health IT. We check in to see what happened since 2014.
By Bernie Monegain | 06:14 am | September 29, 2015
They may be in the Big Easy, where the good times roll, but the people in charge of managing health data at hospitals across the country are focused on the hard work of realizing the most benefit they can from ICD-10.
By Susan Morse | 12:19 pm | September 28, 2015
Whether the looming government shutdown happens or not, healthcare's conversion to ICD-10 will continue, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:36 am | September 28, 2015
The rollout of a $300M Epic EHR implementation at Cambridge University Hospitals in the UK is making a bad financial situation worse, according to news reports from across the pond.
By Jack McCarthy | 10:31 am | September 28, 2015
The project aims to create standards and security while improving patient safety and care quality.
By Bernie Monegain | 09:46 am | September 28, 2015
CMS has allocated $110 million in Affordable Care Act funding to 17 national, regional, or state hospital associations and health system organizations to continue efforts in reducing preventable hospital-acquired conditions and readmissions.
By Jack McCarthy | 09:01 am | September 28, 2015
A pilot program at Vanderbilt University and VA found that patients, nearly three-quarter of whom preferred telehealth, received the same quality of care via video and phone as those who came into the hospital.