The Role of IT Leadership in the Ambulatory Setting
The importance of ambulatory care in our healthcare delivery system and the need to accelerate the adoption of IT continue to be increasingly important for the healthcare industry and HIMSS. HIMSS is dedicated to strengthening its Ambulatory Care Initiative by continuing to work with providers, practice managers and communities to identify and demonstrate how IT can promote clinical and business integration solutions in the ambulatory setting.
Staff leadership is provided by Mary Griskewicz, MS, FHIMSS, Director of Ambulatory Information Systems. The Ambulatory Care Steering Committee is chaired by Jenifer Jarriel, CIO, Baylor College of Medicine. Many HIMSS members have volunteered to contribute as committees and task forces have taken on the challenge. If you would like to join the effort as the Society extends its benefits to reach the Ambulatory providers of healthcare, please review our Ambulatory Committees Task Force and Work Group or contact Mary Griskewicz for additional information. The Ambulatory Information Systems Steering Committee leads the Society in working toward a goal of having 50 percent of physician practices using an Electronic Medical Record, or EMR, by 2010.
CMS Outlines Recommendations for Medicare Claims Processing
CMS has recommended that practices take the following steps during the 10 business-day hold on Medicare claims processing.
Joint Commission Announces 2009 National Patient Safety Goals
The Joint Commission on June 17 announced the 2009 National Patient Safety Goals and related requirements for each of its accreditation programs and its Disease-Specific Care Certification program. The goals apply to the more than 15,000 Joint Commission-accredited and -certified healthcare organizations and programs.
CMS OKs Hospital Payment for Interface Between Provider, Hospital
CMS has indicated that it would allow a hospital to pay for the interface between a provider and the hospital without any violation in Stark laws. This may be helpful to health centers that need a hospital to pay for programming an interface to the health center’s EMR so data can flow between the two. This was found on the Hosp Assoc of NYS (HANYS) web site.
