Posts Tagged ‘Health IT’

New HITECH Grants Assist EHR Implementation

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Health care providers hemming and hawing over electronic health record (EHR) implementation and the viability of earning financial incentives for “meaningful EHR use” need not worry. The federal government is putting up $1.2 billion to ensure your success. Read more »

AAPC Comments on Quality Reporting

Monday, June 29th, 2009

The National Quality Forum (NQF) is seeking comments on its report, Health IT Enablement of Quality Measurement – The Quality Data Set (QDS) and Dataflow. The deadline for comments is June 30. If you would like to read the report or comment upon it, links are provided below.

AAPC sent the following comment to NQF out of concern for EMR coding practices as discussed in this report: Read more »

What Does Dr. Blumenthal Think?

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Want to know what President Obama’s National Coordinator for Health Information Technology thinks and how what he envisions will affect you and your practice? Check out this interview in Health IT News.

SSA and MedVirgina Demonstrate EHRs’ Value

Friday, June 12th, 2009

A collaboration between the Social Security Administration (SSA) and MedVirginia—Virginia’s regional health information organization—is making a sound business case for health information technology (health IT) and the use of interoperable electronic health records (EHRs), maintains Jim Borland, special adviser for health care IT at Social Security.

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