Tom Sullivan

Rochester Regional Health System is among the hospitals building a war room for the ICD-10 deadline. A hand-picked squad of Rochester Regional staffers began working closely with each department and provider practice during the last year to assess readiness.

As the industry anxiously and eagerly awaits the ICD-10 deadline, let's take a look at some of the aspects providers are most concerned about now.

ICD-10 has been a long time coming and, now that the deadline is closing in quickly, a steady stream of vendors are unveiling new products to help hospitals with the transition.

Calico, Google X and Google Ventures, all with significant healthcare focus, will become separate units under Alphabet.

Underfunding security is a fairly common practice in the healthcare industry, but CFOs need to recognize how critical it is to provide the appropriate resources for security initiatives and technologies.

With the Office for Civil Rights gearing up to begin auditing providers, the best thing to do is to be prepared.

The healthcare industry is notorious for being slow to adopt IT. A new study indicates that this slowness -- especially for up-and-coming forms of technology -- may hamper business growth.

Monday evening, the U.S. Senate managed to create an uproar in the healthcare community by passing a bill patching Medicare's pay rate for doctors instead of repealing it and delaying the ICD-10 compliance deadline.

Despite President Barack Obama's victory over Republican challenger Mitt Romney, a significant amount of work must be accomplished in the next four years to ensure that the next president cannot uproot the ACA via "repeal and replace."

To the surprise of some, healthcare wound its way into Monday night's debate -- though the matter only garnered a brief mention by GOP nominee Mitt Romney, who said he would repeal the act as a way to balance the budget.