FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Contact: CMS Media Relations, Tuesday, April 30, 2013, (202) 690-6145 Obama Administration simplifies, significantly shortens application for health insurance The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced that the application for health coverage has been simplified and significantly shortened. The application for individuals without health insurance has been reduced from [...]
The U.S. Courts’ Advisory Committee on Civil Rules votes to send a slate of controversial amendments up the rulemaking ladder. By Henry Kelston Contact All Articles, Law Technology News, April 17, 2013 By this time next year, we may be on the cusp of another major set of amendments to the discovery provisions of the Federal Rules of [...]
Health Information Technology and Quality Webinar and Technical Assistance Resources “Using an Electronic Health Record for Health Information Exchange and Interoperability for Safety Net Providers” Friday, April 26, 2013, 2 PM ET This webinar will focus on how safety net providers can electronically exchange health information and achieve interoperability using electronic health records (EHRs). Exchanging [...]
E Health Update, April 16, 2013 Please join CMS and ONC for a meeting to discuss EHR systems,the increase in code levels billed for some Medicare services, and appropriatecoding in an increasingly electronic environment. Speakers will discuss the effect of EHRs on clinical care,provider efficiency, and coding, as well as the challenges and opportunitieshospitals and [...]
Alex Castle – Via PC World – Apr 5, 2013 3:00 AM Computers may have become a lot more user-friendly over the past decade, but they’re still far from perfect—PCs require a certain amount of configuration and maintenance to operate at their full potential. Unfortunately, because we humans are also far from perfect, we frequently [...]
By Kathryn Hume and Patrick Archbold All Articles, Law Technology News, April 11, 2013 Important new rule changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 now force law firms that comes into contact with protected health information to revisit internal policies and practices, and enforce information security controls, protect confidential information, monitor workforce information [...]
At LegalTech New York, a shower of new cloud products were debuted and demonstrated at the exhibit hall. By Robert Ambrogi Contact All Articles, Law Technology News, April 8, 2013 The annual LegalTech conference in New York is to legal technology what the yearly Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is to consumer technology — the place [...]
CMS – News Updates | April 2, 2013 Will you be ready for ICD-10 on October 1, 2014? Join CMS experts on April 18 from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. ET as they discuss ICD-10 planning and preparation strategies. Following the presentation, CMS representatives will be available for a question and answer session. Agenda: Planning for [...]
March 6, 2013 By: Christine Stahlecker, Director, Administrative Simplification Group, Office of E-Health Standards and Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Did you know that the United States spends more than $150 billion annually on health care administration, and for the average physician, two-thirds of a full time employee is needed to carry out [...]
By Steve Fletcher All Articles, Law Technology News, March 27, 2013 Paul is a brilliant, tech-savvy junior partner nearing the end of his 12-hour day. He responds to dozens of emails from a midtown cab, finalizes a settlement agreement at the corner Starbucks, and researches case law on a the firm’s largest-ever M&A deal on the train [...]