According to this week’s news, the race is on. The healthcare industry is starting to take seriously the ICD-10 implementation deadline of Oct. 1, 2014.

More than 106,000 people have signed up for insurance plans through the state and federal exchanges, according to the Department of Health and Human Services’ widely-anticipated release of enrollment numbers.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released new educational resources to help providers with each phase of the ICD-10 implementation process.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy launched an international collaboration as part of its efforts to create large, cloud-based open health data repositories.

The new Virtual Research Data Center is a secure and efficient means for researchers to virtually access and analyze the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services' healthcare data.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration has funneled $150 million in Affordable Care Act funding to support 236 health center sites nationwide, according to an agency announcement.

Someone was going to have to pay for the problems of healthcare.gov and apparently the first victim is Tony Trenkle, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) chief information officer. Trenkle will step down from his post to join the private sector, effective Nov. 15.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) may be open to conducting ICD-10 end-to-end testing with physician offices, according to MedPage Today's “The Gupta Guide.”