HIMSS12 Online Daily
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

HIMSS, AHIMA re-assert need for ICD-10 vigilance

"This is a bit ironic today," Sue Bowman said, pointing to a CMS-borrowed slide stating that the compliance deadline for ICD-10 is October 1, 2013. "The government threw a big curveball toward many presentations."

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Health IT Venture Fair targets up-and-coming HIT vendors, hot trends

The economy might not be filling everyone's wallets these days, but the landscape for venture capital firms looking to invest in healthcare has never been hotter.

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ACOs need 'more' than an EMR

There's no way around it: Accountable Care Organizations, or ACOs, are the future of healthcare in the United States, and providers had better get on the bus sooner rather than later.

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Usability 101 workshoppers conduct research methods for improving EHRs

Usability is one of the major barriers for health IT adoption, particularly for electronic health records. It was no surprise then that a capacity number of attendees took on the challenge of working through various usability research methods in the workshop Usability 101: Applied Methods.

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