HIMSS News
3/16/2010 - Information Security in Healthcare: Managing Risk provides a comprehensive overview and discussion of the many issues pertaining to privacy and security in the healthcare industry.
3/12/2010 - Meet the authors Steven R. Bennett, MA; Charles E. Christian, FCHIME, FHIMSS; and Judith A. Kirby, CPC. Make IT Known: Marketing Strategies and Case Studies in the Healthcare Environment is a guide to marketing your IT department within and to your hospital, health system or organization.
3/12/2010 - The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has posted an updated organizational chart, with links to bios of senior staff.
3/12/2010 - The Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) for the HHS Certification Process has been officially released in the Federal Register.
3/12/2010 - The Health IT Standards Committee Implementation Workgroup held a meeting focused on “Lessons & Resources to Accelerate Adoption.”
3/12/2010 - The deadline to submit comments for the Meaningful Use Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and for the Initial Set of Standards and Certification Criteria Interim Final Rule is 11:59 pm Eastern on Monday, March 15, 2010.
3/12/2010 - The House Republican Conference has passed a rule that no Republican will request earmarks for the remainder of the 111th Congress. The House Appropriations Committee also announced that it will no longer approve requests for earmarks directed to for-profit entities. In the Senate, Appropriations Chair Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI), voiced his satisfaction with current Senate policies on earmarks.
3/12/2010 - This week the Senate passed HR 4213, the Tax Extenders Act, which would extend jobless benefits, COBRA, and flood insurance through December 2010. The legislation also averts a scheduled 21 percent cut to Medicare physician reimbursement through September 30. As considered on the Senate floor, the legislation clarifies the definition of “hospital based eligible professionals” as included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
