With the Senate failing to extend the Medicare SGR formula before Congress left for the 2-week recess, physicians again are faced with a 21.3% cut in Medicare reimbursement effective April 1st. The House already passed H.R. 4851, which includes an extension of the SGR Medicare formula, in addition to...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has announced that funding will be available to HIT Regional Extension Centers (REC) to provide Critical Access Hospitals with technical assistance to adopt and achieve meaningful use of electronic health records. This is exciting news given that originally...

This whitepaper is the first in a series of privacy and security reports developed by George Washington University under contract with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. The paper examines issues regarding whether, to what extent, and how individuals should have the ability to exercise...

This free 90-minute teleconference will explore the latest research on how patients can utilize health IT to increase participation in their healthcare. Date: April 8, 2010, 1:00 – 2:30 p.m., MTSponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) National Resource Center for Health IT To register for...

Well, as most everyone knows by now, the U.S. has undertaken the biggest social policy change since the 60’s with the passage of the healthcare bill that President Obama signed into law on Tuesday. There is still a reconciliation bill that corrects a lot of (what I like to...

Please join us for our next Consortium Webinar on April 15th from 12-1:15 pm MST where we will discuss the latest HIPAA regulations on Breach Notification, and the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Selection Process. You will learn what policies and procedures you need to have in place in case...