Keeping patient engaged in their care becomes difficult as soon as they leave the physician’s office. As a way to keep physicians close, in the pocket of patients to be exact, mobile care management systems keep physicians close and informed while also keeping patients on track to healthy living. Join Susan Beaton, RN, BSN, CPN, CPC, and Jacop Sattelmair, DSc, MSc, at HIMSS 2017 as they review how mobile technology is bringing patients into the fold of their own care.

In a Dec. 16 letter to CMS, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) discussed the need for 2017 to be a transition year with the implementation of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). CHIME expressed hoped CMS would lengthen the timeline for the industry's MACRA transition into 2018.

H. Stephen Lieber, president and CEO of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), will be retiring at the end of 2017. 

Rep. Tom Price, MD, R-Georgia, will be appointed to run HHS by President-elect Donald Trump, giving the administration’s top healthcare post to a staunch proponent of repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released its Draft National Cyber Incident Response Plan (NCIRP) in September. Now, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has written a letter focusing on three main topics to improve the plan.

A bipartisan group of Senators is proposing ways to improve health outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions, which account for the majority of Medicare spending.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has released the final rule on its Health IT Certification Program, focusing on “reliability, transparency, accountability and safety” of certified electronic health records (EHRs).

Healthcare groups including HIMSS, AMIA and CHIME have written a letter to members of Congress asking for a national patient identifier to increase patient safety and the electronic exchange of data.