ORLANDO—With ICD-10 looming, leaders at Rice Memorial Hospital, 136-bed hospital in Minnesota, suspected clinical documentation and coding problems could hinder future compliance efforts.

ORLANDO—The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT held a Town Hall meeting at the Health Information and Management Systems Society’s annual conference during which members of the office’s leadership team shared how they are working to advance the national health IT agenda.

Lockheed Martin and the University of Miami Health System and Miller School of Medicine have launched a multi-disciplinary partnership deisgned to leverage emerging healthcare technology for improved patient care.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has added new quality measures related to diabetes and heart disease treatment to its Physician Compare website.

ORLANDO—Will there be another delay in ICD-10 implementation? “That is not an option that is being considered,” said Matthew Albright, director of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Office of E-Health Standards and Services, speaking to Clinical Innovation + Technology at the Health Information and Management Systems Society’s annual conference.

To make the government’s electronic health record standard setting process more transparent, the Office of the Nation Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced that it will begin issuing “voluntary” certification criteria on a more regular basis than it has in the past.

Industry lobbying to minimize the 2015 cuts to Medicare Advantage rates was heavy, and when the announced cut came in at less than 2 percent, health insurance stocks rose.

There has been no discernible lull in activity when it comes to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). ONC is full-steam ahead on multiple fronts despite calls for a slowdown.