The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, or MACRA, is coming soon, and with it CMS's Quality Payment Program, which requires providers who bill Medicare more than $30,000 a year to report ...

Healthcare data is an important resource patients can use to improve health outcomes for themselves and as part of research groups. This fact is driving the need for easier ways patients and providers ...

The push to give patients more control over their own medical information has taken many twists and turns over the years from patient portals to personal health records. At the HIMSS conference in Las ...

CMS discovered a data anomaly within its Blue Button 2.0 application program interface on Dec. 4 that could have exposed members protected health information. The vulnerability in the BB2.0 codebase ...

The CMS is once again tackling prior authorization in its new rule proposed Tuesday. Prior authorization, a process in which a physician must get the green light from an insurer for medication or ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is flipping the switch on a service that lets Medicare beneficiaries more easily download and share their health data. CMS Records Management The Centers ...

Payers are rightly reaching out to InterSystems with a host of implementation questions about the Prior Authorization API recently mandated by the Interoperability and Prior Authorization Rule ...

HIMSS has published its comments – sent separately to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT – on their respective proposed rules on ...