HIMSS welcomes the Argonaut Project’s use of innovative standards and technologies to rapidly advance health information interoperability. HIMSS remains highly engaged and supportive of innovation across the health IT sector, including the evolution of emerging standards such as HL7 FHIR.
During the week of April 26, 2015 through May 1, 2015, providers will have a second opportunity to participate in ICD-10 end-to end testing. The goal of this testing will be to demonstrate that:Claims containing ICD-10 codes can be successfully submitted to the Medicare Fee-For-Service Systems
At its meeting on Tuesday, December 9. 2014, the Health IT Policy Committee discussed several issues, including reports from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on the 2014 EHR Incentive Program attestation numbers and draft recommendations from the Interoperability Workgroup on what it would like to put forward for inclusion in the Interoperability Roadmap Version 1.0, that is expected to be published by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)
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December 4 and 5, 2014, Dr. Sri Bharadwaj and Ian Slade from the HIMSS Southern California Chapter visited the offices of the California congressional delegation in Washington, DC. Accompanied by members of the HIMSS Government Relations Team, Ian and Sri visited the staff of eleven Senators and Representatives from California to emphasize the importance of health information technology to improving healthcare and to progress being accomplished in Southern California.
Fremont Family Care (FFC) of Fremont, Neb., has been named a 2014 HIMSS Ambulatory Davies Award recipient. Since 1994, the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence has recognized outstanding achievement of organizations that have used health information technology to substantially improve patient outcomes while achieving return on investment.