Friday May 18, 12:00 PM MDT This webinar focuses on using health information technology (IT) to help coordinate care among outpatient and inpatient safety net providers.  Care coordination between these two provider settings is important for improving healthcare outcomes, increasing patient safety, reducing costs, and attaining patient centered care....

Date:  Tuesday, May 15, 2012 Time:  11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Mountain Time It is not uncommon for health care organizations to struggle with creating and implementing sustainable strategies to influence behaviors and transform culture as they implement advanced health care information technology (HIT) solutions. Organizations without effective behavior...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted the 2011 Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program Eligible Professionals Public Use File (PUF) to the EHR website. This new file contains data on Eligible Professionals (EPs) who participated in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program in 2011. The CMS 2011...

Last week, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced a proposed rule that would delay the compliance date for ICD-10 from October 1, 2013 to October 1, 2014. This proposed rule has now been posted to the Federal Register, which marks the beginning of the 30-day comment period, with all comments...

Wednesday, May 2nd, 11:30 MDT CMS Regions VI, VII and VIII are pleased to announce a new webinar presenting basic information on how your practice may be able to access EHR incentive payments. As of February 29th, over $3.8 billion in Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive payments have been...

Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2012Time: 1:00pm Mountain Featured Speaker: Joe Wivoda, Chief Information Officer, National Rural Health Resource Center Description: Hospital leadership is critical when implementing electronic information systems, particularly in rural and critical access hospitals. This presentation will provide examples of effective project structure for rural and critical...

Friday, April 27, 2012, 12:00 pm MDT This webinar provides expert advice on how health information technology (IT) can help primary care and rural inpatient providers prepare for and overcome an unforeseen event.  When these events – such as a flood, data loss, power outage, snowstorm, or a public...

This enforcement action is particularly important because it marks the first recent case where failure to conduct a HIPAA Security Risk Analysis is used for a financial penalty or fine! Please remember this is a requirement under HIPAA as well as to attest to meaningful use. If you have...