The true cost of emergency department (ED) services may be as much as three times the amount of longstanding federal estimates.

A new bill would not require a transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 code sets. Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) introduced the bill dubbed the "Cutting Costly Codes Act of 2013."

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC) has updated its open government product, Health IT Dashboard, with 100,000 new data points.

Healthcare reforms focused on “person-centered care” are the best means to improve care and could save an estimated $300 billion in net federal savings during the next decade, or more than $1 trillion over 20 years, according to an April 2013 Brookings Institution's Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform report.

Hospitals and health systems nationwide are projecting a significant shift in 2013 admissions from inpatient to outpatient settings as they transition toward new care delivery models, according to the Premier healthcare alliance’s spring 2013 Economic Outlook.

The Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs and the Office of the National Coordinator on Health IT’s (ONC’s) certification programs are insufficient to achieve widespread interoperability and electronic information exchange necessary to achieve true healthcare reform, national multi-stakeholder healthcare organization eHealth Initiative (eHI) told the ONC and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in an April 22 letter.

The Health IT Policy Committee’s (HITPC’s) newly formed FDA Safety Innovation Act Workgroup (FDASIA) kicked off its first meeting on April 29, and began to pursue its statutory purpose: proposing strategies and recommendations for a risk-based regulatory framework for health IT that promotes innovation, protects patient safety and avoids regulatory duplication.

EMERYVILLE, Calif., April 30, 2013 -- MedeAnalytics, a leading provider of healthcare performance management solutions, announced today that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont (BCBSVT) selected MedeAnalytics' Medical Management Analytics. BCBSVT's vision is to provide population health management--which includes an integrated approach to physical and mental health--as well as future episode-based contracting, also known as bundled payments.