Government & Policy
Healthcare organizations need to plan for security in the transmission, storage, and use of potentially massive amounts and new kinds of data that devices such as Google Glass will create, and that includes educating patients that data thieves may be lurking behind free health applications.
Laying the foundation for information sharing to enable full exploitation of the vast healthcare data resources available begins with letting go of territorial mindsets.
At least one major vendor disputes the fear that software won't be ready. But it's still too early to tell whether smaller computer-assisted coding, EHR, practice management and revenue cycle software makers will arrive at ICD-10 on time -- and what will happen if they don't.
After an eventful two-year stint as deputy national coordinator, Farzad Mostashari, MD took the helm at ONC just as the meaningful use program began to gather steam. His tenure will be remembered as one of unprecedented change for the industry. Here's a look back at some of his star turns in Healthcare IT News over the years.
Farzad Mostashari, MD has said he intends to step down from the national coordinator post this fall. Mostashari spent four years with ONC, first as a deputy national coordinator, then taking over as the national coordinator in 2011. Secretary Kathleen Sebelius made the announcement in a letter to HHS staff.
HHS Secretary Sebelius, in an internal memo to staff, highlighted the ONC chief's accomplishments during the last four years.
More than half of hospitals are sharing clinical information outside their affiliations. But two clinical data categories critical to care coordination still lag, ONC researchers found.
They get one year to solve complex problems. And then, whether they fail or succeed wildly, the HHSentrepreneurs such as Zac Jiwa and his brethren are cut loose. Jiwa discusses the obstacles and opportunities.
Medicare will levy $227 million in fines against hospitals in every state but one for the second round of the government's campaign to reduce the number of patients readmitted within a month, according to federal records released Friday.
The same software commonly used in academic settings has potential to clear up much of the confusion around upcoding, cutting and pasting of medical records, and the fraud and abuse concerns the practice has triggered.