At a recent Medical Group Management Association conference in Las Vegas, Health Tech Zone recently asked several EHR vendors what they plan to work on in the gap between Meaningful Use and ICD-10.
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Omega Healthcare says it is planning a surge in hiring this year — estimating 2,300 new employees over the course of 2015.
Most IT departments across the country are saying they aren't ready for the ICD-10 compliance deadline, ComputerWorld.com reports.
A recent poll shows that the majority of hospital leadership is more and more apprehensive about a looming ICD-10 deadline.
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Last year was apparently a great year for the Vancouver, Wash.-based BridgeFront, a provider of e-learning for the healthcare industry — they recently announced record growth.
If you think postponing the ICD-10 switchover deadline from Oct. 1 will only affect healthcare providers and software vendors, Juliet Santos of ICD-10 Monitor says, you're wrong — it could affect the safety of the country at large.
A county in Michigan is mulling the idea of joining up with Concierege Corrections in order to save money on jail costs, the Ogemaw County (Mich.) Herald reports
The postponement of the ICD-10 compliance deadline until Oct. 1, 2015, could have allowed software vendors more time to come out with new products, writes Avery Hurt for Diagnostic Imaging.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommended ambulatory surgery centers receive no updates to their facility fees in 2016, according to an Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society report.