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NewsCIOs: Don't understate the importance of ICD-10 to your staff
Want your hospital staff to truly understand the importance of ICD-10 and other important IT implementations? Be incessant with your reminders, Stephen M. Stewart, CIO of Iowa-based Henry County Read more...
Fierce exclusive interview - Atlantic Health's Linda Reed: Our focus should be on patient care, not project implementation
Linda Reed, vice president and chief information officer at New Jersey-based Atlantic Health, knows a thing or two about successful healthcare collaboration. As president of Jersey Health Connect, Read more...
CHIME, eHealth Initiative issue HIE Guide for CIOs
To direct hospital CIOs through the complex challenges of health information exchanges, the College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the eHealth Initiative (eHI) have released Read more...
CHIME: Metadata standards not ready for Meaningful Use
Two associations representing hospitals have asked the government not to include metadata standards in Stage 2 of Meaningful Use, saying the standards are still under development and not ready for Read more...
Civil Rights data access proposal unrealistic, expensive, CHIME says
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has asked the federal Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to reconsider its proposal for requiring that healthcare providers and insurers Read more...
CHIME to ONC: Allow plenty of time to encourage EHR adoption
Along with dozens of other organizations, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has sent the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) its official comments Read more...
Study: CPOE adoption tougher than it looks
With the Joint Commission and CMS emphasizing the value of computerized physician order entry (CPOE), health IT managers and CIOs have started to plan rollouts. The thing is, they're likely to get Read more...
CIOs don't feel prepared for ICD-10
Now here's a big surprise: A new trade group survey has found that healthcare CIOs are a bit worried about the coming switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 code sets. The survey, which was conducted by the Read more...
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