Despite the recent one-year implementation delay to October 2014, ICD-10 should be a top priority for CMIOs over the next two years. G. Daniel Martich, MD, CMIO and VP of physician services at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), discusses his role in the facilitys progress on ICD-10.

Eighty-nine new accountable care organizations (ACOs) serving 1.2 million Medicare patients in 40 states and Washington, D.C. officially entered into agreements with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as of July 1.

The Cleveland Clinic Health System (CCHS) is successfully evolving, using computer-assisted coding (CAC) to address clinical documentation improvement, ICD-10 implementation and more, according to an article published in the July issue of Journal of AHIMA.

Geisinger Health System and pharmaceutical company Merck will enter into a new multi-year collaboration designed to improve patient health outcomes by focusing on shared decision making between patients and physicians and improved patient adherence.

A perspective article published in the June 14 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine set out to explain the IT productivity paradox and its relation to the rise of health IT implementations.

Growth in healthcare spending in the U.S. has slowed considerably since 2009, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers's Health Research Institute. The organization projects medical costs will increase 7.5 percent for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth.

South Shore Hospital in Boston has agreed to pay $750,000 to resolve allegations because the provider failed to protect the personal and confidential health information of more than 800,000 consumers, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced. The investigation and settlement resulted from a data breach reported to the AGs office in July 2010 that included individuals names, Social Security numbers, financial account numbers and medical diagnoses.

Actuarial firm Milliman has released an accountable care organization (ACO) cheat sheet to guide stakeholders through the ins and outs of Medicare Shared Savings Program and the Pioneer ACOs.