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Forget the upgrade | Texas the most strident of ICD-10 mandate foes
By Joseph Conn | May 19, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
In Texas, “ICD-10” and “compliance deadline” are becoming fighting words.
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Time to get on board with ICD-10
By Lynne Thomas Gordon | May 16, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
In 1979, the average cost of gasoline was 86 cents per gallon; the federal funds rate was as high as 13.78%; and people associated an apple with a piece of fruit.
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Use carrots to get ICD-10 compliance
May 11, 2012
I've written before about the federally supported health information technology regional extension center program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to help providers adopt and meaningfully use electronic health records systems.
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AHIMA to HHS: Don't delay ICD-10 upgrade
By Joseph Conn | May 10, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
In an eight-page letter to HHS (PDF), the American Health Information Management Association called on HHS to stay the course and keep to the original schedule for the federally...
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Organizations speak out on Stage 2 rules
By Joseph Conn | May 08, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Multiple healthcare organizations hustled ahead of Monday's deadline to file comments on the proposed Stage 2 meaningful-use rules for the federally funded electronic health-records incentive payment programs under Medicare and Medicaid.
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Measured enthusiasm from groups for ICD-10 delay
By Joseph Conn | April 10, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Initial reaction from healthcare industry leaders to HHS' proposed extension of the ICD-10 compliance deadline by one year to Oct. 1, 2014, has been cautiously positive.
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AHIMA: Keep going on ICD-10
By Joseph Conn | January 31, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Countering the position of the American Medical Association, the American Health Information Management Association is urging its members to continue preparing for the October 2013 federally mandated conversion to the International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision of diagnostic and...
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AHIMA responds to AMA ICD-10 vote
By Joseph Conn | November 17, 2011 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The American Health Information Management Association has rallied to the defense of the Oct. 1, 2013 deadline for the implementation of the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, indicating its disappointment with an American Medical Association resolution this week to
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Not so fast | IOM report warns of danger in rushing IT training, as providers, vendors push for keeping safety reporting voluntary
By Rich Daly | November 14, 2011 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The rush to digitize patient information may produce unintended casualties if hospitals do not invest adequate time, effort and money in training their staffs to correctly use health IT.
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Video: AHIMA attendees focus on networking, HIPAA, EHR and ICD-10 at the association's annual convention (2:37)
By Joseph Conn | October 07, 2011
Modern Healthcare's Joseph Conn speaks with members of the American Health Information Management Association on why they attended the association's 83rd annual convention this week in Salt Lake City.
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