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Dolbey and Alpha Systems Announce Strategic Alliance Partnership

Organizations join forces to help hospitals prepare for the challenges of ICD-10 CONDORD, OH and HUNTINGDON VALLEY, PA – Dolbey, a leader in dictation, transcription, speech recognition and coding solutions for healthcare, and Alpha Systems, a premier provider of electronic patient chart management solutions, announced a strategic alliance partnership to integrate Alpha System’s data and…

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CHIME Supports Year Delay on ICD-10 as ‘Middle Ground’

From Healthcare IT News ANA ARBOR, MI – The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) on Wednesday submitted comments on ICD-10 proposed rulemaking to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. CHIME urged HHS to remain committed to ICD-10, while calling the one-year delay an appropriate “middle ground” for all stakeholders. “A longer delay…

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AMA Calls for Further Delay to ICD-10 Compliance Deadline

From Modern Healthcare Last week, the American Medical Association sent a letter to acting CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner asking the federal government to further delay the compliance date for the transition to ICD-10 code sets to Oct. 1, 2015, Modern Healthcare reports (Conn, Modern Healthcare, 5/11). Background U.S. health care organizations are working to transition…

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Planning for ICD-10 at the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics

By Connie S. Tohara for Computerworld When October 1, 2014 arrives, there are a number of potential disasters that await if we’re not fully prepared for the new clinical coding classification, ICD-10. Federal regulators have proposed a Fall 2014 deadline to comply, and we’re taking the initiative head-on at the University of Utah Hospitals and…

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ACA Repeal Would Squeeze For-Profit Hospitals

By Margaret Dick Tocknell, for HealthLeaders Media If the Affordable Care Act is fully or partially nullified by the US Supreme Court, for-profit hospital operators will face a credit-negative situation as costs increase and profit margins shrink, according to a special comment report from Moody’s Investors Service. That could be detrimental to the credit position…

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Feds Release New Healthcare Quality Measures

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposes clinical reporting standards that physicians and hospitals will use to qualify for Stage 2 Meaningful Use bonus payments. By Neil Versel, InformationWeek A month after publishing proposed rules for Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use electronic health records (EHRs) incentive program, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…

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ACCA: Get on the ICD-10 bandwagon, NOW

CHICAGO—Hospitals must implement a contingency plan to deal with ICD-10, said Mary Phelps and Carol Beehler, both of PricewaterhouseCoopers during a presentation March 22 at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiovascular Administrators (ACCA). Hospitals should go forward preparing for ICD-10, despite the fact that the Oct. 1, 2013, deadline has been delayed.…

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