| AHIMA urges providers to adopt ICD-10 quickly, despite delay |
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Don't Hit Snooze Button On ICD-10 |
Lots of healthcare CIOs, doctors, and admins have been losing sleep over ICD-10. But now that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services this week has proposed extending the ICD-10 compliance deadline by one year, healthcare organizations need to make the most of this extra time, and not just hit the snooze button.
Everyone loves getting an extended deadline from time to time, especially with tough assignments. While it's great to have some extra wiggle room to make sure a job is well done, the trouble with delayed deadlines is that they give procrastinators more excuses to postpone the inevitable. READ MORE |
| EHR incentive payments tally $4.5B to date |
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The Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record program has paid $4.5 billion to 76,612 physicians and hospitals in incentive payments through March 2012.
Of that amount, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services paid out $339.9 million for Medicare eligible providers, according to its latest data.
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CMS Releases Quality Measures for MU Stage 2 Proposed Rules |
Under the 2009 federal economic stimulus package, health care providers who demonstrate meaningful use of certified electronic health record systems can qualify for Medicaid and Medicare incentive payments. |
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Breaches epidemic despite efforts at compliance, says Kroll |
A new study from HIMSS Analytics and Kroll Advisory Solutions shows that, a diligent focus on security compiance notwithstanding, healthcare providers are still bably lacking when it comes to privacy protections. In fact, data breaches have only increased in recent years.
According to the 2012 "HIMSS Analytics Report: Security of Patient Data," increasingly stringent regulatory activity with regard to reporting and auditing procedures - and increased compliance from providers - haven't done anything to prevent an uptick in breaches over the past six years.
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| PHI Project: Don't ignore breach consequences |
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Several healthcare groups have joined together to demand a tightening of security for protected health information. And they're making a financial case for it.
With the release of "The Financial Impact of Breached Protected Health Information: A Business Case for Enhanced PHI Security," healthcare organizations now have a new method to evaluate the "at risk" value of protected health information (PHI) that will enable them to make a business case for appropriate investments to better protect it, say the leaders of the PHI Project.
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