The American Medical Association (AMA) has asked the federal government to delay the implementation deadline for ICD-10 from Oct. 1, 2013, until Oct. 1, 2015, "at a minimum."
At the Connecting Healthcare + Social Media Conference, Lee Aase, director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media, and Farris Timimi, Medical Director for the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media, shared stories and expertise on the ways social media can impact the moral imperative of healthcare.
The states of Illinois, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee and Washington will receive $181 million in grants from the Health and Human Services Department to help them establish health insurance exchanges.
Health Level Seven International (HL7) announced Wednesday the inception of its pilot membership program, and launched a website aimed at increasing caregivers’ participation in the development of electronic health record (EHR) standards.
Allscripts on Wedenesday, named two independent members to its board of directors. The board had been left decimated last month after its chairman Phil Pead was fired and three board members resigned in protest after a turbulent quarterly meeting.
Allscripts moved quickly to name a new board chairman – Dennis Chookaszian, a member of Allscripts' board since September 2010, formerly chairman and CEO of CNA Financial Corporation.
By the end of 2011, 58 percent of office-based physicians were using e-prescribing, with solo practitioners contributing the most significant growth, according to Surescripts, which released today “The National Progress Report on E-Prescribing and Interoperable Healthcare Year 2011.”
Included in the report is data analysis that documents the prevalence of e-prescribing adoption and use in the United States from 2008 through 2011.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 155,000 jobs were added to the economy last month, with the healthcare industry alone responsible for 19,000 of these newly added positions.
According to the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the University of Albany, State University in New York, more than 4.2 million healthcare employment opportunities are expected to be added by 2020.
Quadrant4 Systems Corporation, which makes enterprise resource planning and business intelligence software, will acquire Atlanta-based empowHR, a developer of SaaS platform technology for health insurance and employee benefits administration.
Leading financial analysts scoffed at the notion of a healthcare IT “bubble” that could slow the pace of mergers and acquisitions this year. Speaking on a panel called “Financing The Deal” at the Nashville Health Care Council, they predicted that 2012 M&A activity would be brisk, though not superheated.
For 3M President Jon Lindekugel, the fun part of what's about to happen with the VA and DoD iEHR is the innovation it will spark. Not coincidentally, that’s also something of an opportunity for 3M, which he describes as a "content company."
Thoughts, comments, news, and reflections about healthcare IT from Microsoft's worldwide health senior director Bill Crounse, MD, on how information technology can improve healthcare delivery and services around the world.
