The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are doing everything they can to help providers prepare for the Oct. 1, 2014, ICD-10 implementation date. Denesecia Green, CMS senior health insurance specialist, spoke with Clinical Innovation + Technology about the agency’s ICD-10 resources.

Healthcare organizations have large amounts of data but often do not have the tools to bring the data together for useful business information and planning. Healthcare analytics is the systematic use of data and related business insights developed through applied analytical disciplines such as, statistical, contextual, quantitative, predictive, cognitive, other including emerging model to drive fact-based decision making for planning, management, measurement and learning. Analytics may be descriptive, predictive or prescriptive.

GNS Healthcare today announced that U.S. Patent 8,571,803, entitled "Systems and Methods for Modeling and Analyzing Networks," has been issued, relating to significant innovations in automated causal data analytics.  The patent covers key methods underlying REFS(TM), a computational platform that automatically builds predictive and explanatory models from big data.

The American Hospital Association wants the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to move up its ICD-10 testing plans from March to January, make sure the process is available to all hospitals and establish the same testing date for all Medicare contractors.

A House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing explored whether proposed rules governing the oversight of mobile medical device apps should be codified into law.

CHICAGO—The ultimate vision of the Meaningful Use program is to create significant and measurable improvements in population health through a transformed healthcare delivery system, said George Hripcsak, MD, MS, chair of the department of biomedical informatics at Columbia University. Hripcsak spoke during the Healthcare Leadership Forum on Nov. 15.

CHICAGO—Adverse events in hospitals may be ten times greater than previously measured, according to research conducted by David C. Classen, MD, MS, CMIO of Pascal Metrics and assistant professor of the department of medicine at the University of Utah, who spoke during the Healthcare Leadership Forum on Nov. 14.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are gearing up for ICD-testing with Medicare Administration Contractors (MACs) in March.