The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives' (CHIME) board of trustees has selected Russell P. Branzell to serve as its president and CEO.

The National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (NAACOS), representing more than 60 ACOs from more than 15 states, is a 501(c)6 nonprofit that will nationally seek to allow ACOs to work together to increase quality of care, lower costs and improve the health of their communities.

A new report from healthcare market research firm KLAS finds that EMR vendors Cerner, Epic and Siemens Healthcare rank highest in their ICD-10 preparedness while Allscripts and MediTech rank the lowest.

For every dollar spent on healthcare-related fraud and abuse investigations in the last three years, the government recovered $7.90, according to a new report released by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. This is the highest three-year average return on investment in the 16-year history of the Health Care Fraud and Abuse (HCFAC) Program.

President Barack Obama re-nominated Marilyn Tavenner to be permanent administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. She has been serving as acting administrator since December 2011, when Donald Berwick, MD, stepped down.

Among other efforts and on the heels of the release of the final privacy rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its final rule seeking to increase public awareness of financial relationships between drug and device manufacturers and certain healthcare providers.

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is supporting much of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s proposed HIT safety plan, but its comment letter offers additional ideas to enhance or clarify some of the provisions.

Applications are now being accepted for round two of the Presidential Innovation Fellows program. Launched last year, the program recruits top innovators and entrepreneurs from the private sector for 6-12 month “tours of duty” in government to help develop innovative solutions in areas of national significance.