Xerox’s (NYSE: XRX) Health Enterprise platform, a next-generation Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS), has received full federal certification in New Hampshire. 

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has launched a campaign opposing the Protecting Patients and Physicians Against Coding Act. 

The four largest state medical societies have come together to warn the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that the Oct. 1 ICD-10 implementation deadline is a “looming disaster.” 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded a contract to Data Computer Corporation of America (DCCA), a veteran-owned information technology services company, to provide support to the National Level Repository (NLR), which serves as the central system in the Meaningful Use program.

The majority of providers have not yet conducted ICD-10 testing, according to a survey by the American Health Information Management Association and eHealth Initiative. 

The National Library of Medicine could become the epicenter for biomedical data science and dramatically expand its activities beyond that of its parent organization, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), according to an advisory committee report to the NIH director.

Recent efforts to establish a grace period around the ICD-10 transition will have "far-reaching, negative consequences," according to the Coalition for ICD-10.

Attempts to impact the ICD-10 transition keep coming with a third attempt in about a month now aiming to provide a two-year grace period for providers submitting claims.