All About Insurance

Remarks below are (loosely) transcribed from remarks at the 2016 ONC Annual Meeting by Dr. Karen DeSalvo, Acting Assistant Secretary for Health, HHS; National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, ONC: How is everybody doing? A little loude… [Read more »]

Meaningful use called and said, "The rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated." Seriously, a careful parsing of acting CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt's comments at this year's J.P. Morgan Health Care Conference does not le… [Read more »]

The 2016 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition  is coming up between February 29 - March 4, 2016 in Las Vegas. This is the Super Bowl of health IT and will bring together over 40,000 health IT professionals, clinicians, executives and vendors fro… [Read more »]

The Senate HELP Committee  has released for feedback a staff discussion draft of the committee’s bipartisan legislation to improve health information technology, including electronic health records. The draft legislation is the result of a biparti… [Read more »]

On December 1, 2014, CMS released an NPRM updating policies under the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). The proposed rule outlines proposed changes and seeks feedback in key program areas, including some health IT components. Comments are due … [Read more »]

CMS and ONC issued a final rule under which providers in the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program can meet Meaningful Use (MU) in 2014 using 2011 or 2014 Edition certified EHR technology (CEHRT), or a combination, with flexibility to attest … [Read more »]