In some exciting news for people who have been watching healthcare interoperability for a long time, Carequality has passed an emergency waiver that allows...
Category - HIM
For many providers, obtaining a prior authorization (PA) involves manually faxing documents to a payer or sitting on hold for a long time – an inefficient and...
We’re working on a full article about this, but most of you have probably seen that Judy Faulkner and her company, Epic, have asked their customers to...
The following is a guest article by Deborah Hsieh, Chief Policy & Strategy Officer at Ciox. When most of your patients hear “health data rights,” they...
When I saw the announcement of Unblock Health by my friends and colleagues, Dr. Grace Cordovano, BCPA, and Shahid Shah, I knew I had to learn more and help...
As we head into 2020, I reached out to a number of people in Health Information Management (HIM) and Health Information Technology (HIT) to hear their thoughts...
For the second time this month, the HHS Office for Civil Rights has fined a provider for failing to make a patient’s medical records available to them promptly...
While we’ve been writing about EMR data archiving since back in 2009 and then again in 2013 and 2014 to name a few, the topic has never been more...
The use of computer-assistant coding has been percolating along for a while now but hasn’t taken over the healthcare industry. However, it could find a much...
Several trade groups focused on healthcare issues have come together to publish a letter urging the ONC to rethink aspects of its proposed interoperability...
