The Medical Group Management Association is concerned that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will not conduct ICD-10 testing with external trading partners.

College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) members called for a safe and smooth transition to Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 2 during a joint hearing of two federal advisory committees in Washington, D.C.

The shift from volume to value is bringing about numerous new job titles but three primary responsibilities, according to a session at the AMDIS 22nd Annual Physician-Computer Connection Symposium in Ojai, Calif.

CMIOs should be prepared for career flux, according to the speakers of a session at the AMDIS 22nd Annual Physician-Computer Connection Symposium in Ojai, Calif.

The clinical documentation required by ICD-10 will help present a more thorough clinical picture, according to members of a documentation panel held during the AMDIS 22nd Annual Physician-Computer Connection Symposium in Ojai, Calif., on June 27.

In the first of a series of Senate Finance Committee hearings planned on health IT, witnesses Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, national coordinator for health IT and Patrick Conway, chief medical officer and director, Center for Clinical Standards and Quality and acting director, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, reported on progress of the Meaningful Use (MU) program and advised against temporarily halting it.

Despite the one-year delay in ICD-10 compliance, many healthcare providers still do not understand the value of the new medical diagnostic codes that will be used beginning Oct. 1, 2014, according to a new survey from eHealth Initiative. 

While study after study indicates that providers are ill prepared to convert to ICD-10 by the Oct. 1, 2014 deadline, the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) Association told legislators they are on schedule for implementation and urged against any further delays.