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Big Business, Little Data

A growing number of Californians are being sent to ambulatory surgery centers for a wide variety of procedures, yet little is known about the care they deliver because reporting is not required.

Keeping Track of Asthma

CHCF has made a second investment in Asthmapolis, a device that tracks asthma inhaler use and reports data through mobile phones to patients and doctors to better manage the disease.

Groups Offer Input on Proposed Delay for ICD-10 Compliance

The American Health Information Management Association recently announced that it opposes delaying the ICD-10 compliance deadline but that if such a delay is inevitable, it should be limited to one year. The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives said HHS' proposed one-year delay is an appropriate "middle ground." Healthcare IT News, Health Data Management.

New Final Rules Update Technical Standards for E-Prescribing Program

Today, CMS issued two final rules designed to ease regulatory burdens on health care providers. One of the rules includes a provision stating that CMS has retired older versions of technical standards for the Medicare electronic prescribing program. Modern Healthcare et al.

CMS Publishes Data on Recipients of Medicare EHR Incentive Payments

CMS has published a list of health care providers, as well as a list of hospitals, that have received Medicare incentive payments through the meaningful use program. The agency plans to update the lists, which are organized by state, on a quarterly basis. Government Health IT.

University of California Spearheading New Initiative To Mine 'Big Data' in Health Care

NIH Director Francis Collins, Atul Butte of the Stanford School of Medicine, David Patterson of the University of California-Berkeley and Taylor Sittler of UC-San Francisco discussed new efforts to mine "big data" for health care and scientific research.

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When Do Health Care Providers Plan To Buy Computer-Assisted Coding Technology?

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About 21% of surveyed health care providers already have purchased computer-assisted coding systems, and 33% plan to purchase such systems in 2012, according to a KLAS report. Many health care providers say they are buying such systems to prepare for the transition to ICD-10 code sets.

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