EHRs

The Premier healthcare alliance will spend $86 million in the next three years for enhancement of IT to accommodate accountable care organizations and other new delivery models under health reform, according to a Premier news release.

CareFusion, a global medical device company, and Cerner Corp., a global provider of healthcare solutions and services, have announced an agreement to improve data communication between CareFusion Pyxis medication dispensing, supply and anesthesiology systems, and CareAware, Cerner's integrated device connectivity…

Medicity, the nation's largest clinical health information exchange vendor, announced that it is collaborating with Emdeon, the nation's largest financial and administrative health information exchange solution provider, to create the first "converged" national health information exchange, according to a Medicity…

A recent report in Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology outlined five key barriers to healthcare providers' implementation of electronic health records as well as ways providers in Massachusetts were addressing these concerns.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has extended the reasonable cost payment for clinical laboratory tests performed by hospitals with fewer than 50 beds in qualified rural areas as part of their outpatient services for the cost reporting periods…

The American Medical Association, along with 95 state and specialty medical societies, submitted formal comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on the proposed rule outlining the meaningful use criteria for the electronic health records incentive programs, according…

Perhaps no process has as great an impact on a hospital's revenue cycle as procedure documentation and coding. When done accurately and efficiently, it can accelerate the billing cycle, reduce rejected or returned claims and increase revenues.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a series of questions and answers related to the recently eliminated physician consultation CPT codes, which address how evaluation and management services should be reported to CMS.

Catholic Healthcare West, based in San Francisco, has committed an additional $400 million to expand its electronic health record system, after an initial roll-out of the system to eight of its hospitals, according to a report in the Sacramento Business…

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has posted two updated answers in its frequently asked questions section of its Web site related to Condition Code 44 (Inpatient admission changed to outpatient).