EHRs

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued Transmittal 1867 (pdf), which is designed to help physicians, non-physician practitioners and hospitals, as well as Medicare Administrative Contractors, to help prevent misuse of modifiers used to identify adverse events and…

The upcoming implementation of ICD-10 has been seen by many as a necessary update of a rapidly outdated system, whereas others feel that the changes are too sweeping to be enacted in only three years, according to a report in…

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that Iowa's Medicaid program is the first to receive federal matching funds for planning activities necessary to implement the electronic health record incentive program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act…

The National Quality Forum has announced the release of the Quality Data Set, a common technological framework for defining clinical data necessary to measure performance and accelerate improvement in patients' quality of care, which provides a standardized set of data…

Orthopedic surgeons, cardiac surgeons and cardiologists in San Antonio have been receiving payments of $65-$6,000 for collaborating with the five-hospital Baptist Health System in a CMS demonstration project to reduce the cost of medical devices, according to a report by…

North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in New York plans to offer subsidizes of up to $40,000 over five years to each of its 7,000 affiliated physicians for adopting electronic health records, according to a report by the New York…

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society has announced its 2009 Davies Award recipients for excellence in the use of health information technology, according to a HIMSS news release.

SourceMedical, a leading provider of outpatient information solutions and services for ASCs, surgical hospitals and rehabilitation clinics nationwide, has announced the launch of its Vision for Specialty Hospitals software, according to a SourceMedical news release.

The three major health systems in Camden, N.J., are partnering with local physicians to create a health information exchange so that the groups can share health records of patients who approve their participation in the exchange, according to a report…

Three of the largest health systems in Maryland and a large retirement community operator have joined together to build a statewide health information exchange network, according to a report by the Baltimore Sun.