Healthcare Finance Staff
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT hopes to see "really rapid progress" this year on the building blocks that will promote health information exchange, such as provider directories, certificates to assure identification and rules of the road for the nationwide health information (NwHIN) Exchange.
Even against the backdrop of HHS saying it intends to push back ICD-10 compliance, there's no shortage of healthcare entities insisting they will march forward with their conversion plans, aiming to be ready by October 1, 2013 -- federally-mandated deadline, or not.
When asked to choose a healthcare provider based only on cost, consumers choose the more expensive option, according to a new study funded by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) that appears in the March issue of Health Affairs.
Both the meaningful use and health IT standards and certification proposed rules officially appeared in the Federal Register March 7, which automatically launched the countdown for public comments for 60 days. The public may comment on the proposed rule online through May 6.
At the HIT Policy Committee meeting on March 7, Farzad Mostashari, federal health IT czar, expressed strong disagreement over a new health IT survey published in the March issue of Health Affairs. The study has drawn a slough of national media attention.
What with Texas not partaking in Super Tuesday this time around, the primary in Ohio is considered paramount to GOP candidates -- and the Buckeye State is where Rick Santorum has hit Mitt Romney hardest on healthcare thus far.
Jim Gobell
Chief Financial Officer
St. Luke's Iowa Health System
Sioux City, Iowa
Earlier this year, Forbes magazine published its first ever list of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs – folks who use business to solve social issues. On Forbes’ Impact 30 list is a 50-year-old optometrist named Jordan Kassalow who recognized as a student the potential of not only helping people in underserved areas of India and El Salvador to see but also helping them gain economic empowerment. Kassalow talked to Healthcare Finance News Associate Editor Stephanie Bouchard about being a business person and being socially responsible.
Louisiana is moving forward on its new Web-based Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) now that it has federal approval on the $185 million, 10-year contract with CNSI, a Gaithersburg, Md., health IT services provider, to develop and deploy the system by the end of 2014.
SAI Global Compliance announced Monday the findings of its 2012 Health Insurance Compliance Benchmark Study and 2012 Healthcare Compliance Benchmark Study.