For those of you who are familiar with the earlier Federal Communications Commission COVID-19 Telehealth Program, the FCC has announced that an additional $250 million... More

The Information Blocking applicability date for providers has been extended to April 5, 2021. Summary On 10/29/20, ONC released an Interim Final Rule with comment... More

Recently (August 3, 2020), CMS released the 2021 Proposed Rule for the Quality Payment Program (QPP) via the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Notice of... More

This is the second blog in a series about enterprise imaging. The first blog about what it is and why have it can be found... More

Applications for this program open today (April 13, 2020) at Noon EST at https://www.fcc.gov/covid-19-telehealth-program UPDATE: APPLICATION PORTAL NOW AVAILABLE The FCC application portal is now... More

Earlier this month (January 15), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the draft 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for public... More

Healthcare delivery is moving from specialized silos of patient care to an integrated team of health specialists sharing patient information. Enterprise imaging (EI) focuses on... More

Yesterday (September 3, 2019) ONC announced that it has awarded the Sequoia Project the cooperative agreement to serve as the Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) for... More

This past Friday (April 19, 2019) Health and Human Services (HHS) released its long awaited update to TEFCA–the “Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement”. This... More

On February 11, 2019 CMS and ONC released complimentary proposed rules on Information Blocking and Interoperability. Long anticipated, these rules will influence how we exchange electronic... More

This past Thursday, November 1, 2018, CMS released the 2,378 page Final Rule encompassing both the 2019 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and the Quality Payment Program... More

This past Thursday, July 12, 2018, CMS released the “CY 2019 Quality Payment Program proposed rule,” along with an associated “Fact Sheet.” In today’s blog... More

Financial transactions between multiple parties make the exchange of financial data commonplace in a connected environment like an integrated health system. Some payments are so... More

Information security is a high priority for healthcare organizations, and it takes more than a focused initiative to ensure the ongoing confidentiality, integrity and availability... More

NOTE: To read about the recent (April 19, 2019) proposed rule update to TEFCA, please read our newest blog post “TEFCA in a Nutshell –... More