By Jessica Zigmond | August 25, 2012
| Print Magazine
Healthcare will play a prominent role at the Republicans' big show in Tampa, Fla., this week, but that's not due to a strong directorial effort from the industry's main lobbying organizations. FULL STORY »
The American Health Information Management Association unveiled its Health Information Management Career Map, describing it as an interactive tool that assists students and others in tracking jobs in the healthcare information management sector. FULL STORY »
Time has run out for the stragglers. After two extensions, the CMS has not added a third period of enforcement abeyance to its rule requiring the use of several new electronic transactions standards. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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... FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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... FULL STORY »
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