Category Archives: standards

standards

Don’t forget D.0

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Neil Versel

While everyone’s scrambling to comply with ANSI X12 5010 standards for HIPAA transactions by Jan. 1—or whenever CMS gets around to enforcing them—there’s another piece of the upgrade that hasn’t been talked about much. That’s the National Council for Prescription … Continue reading →

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Podcast: mHealth Initiative’s Peter Waegemann

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Neil Versel

In 2009, after 25 years of moving “Toward an Electronic Patient Record” (TEPR), the Medical Records Institute disbanded and its founder, Peter Waegemann, shifted his focus to mobile healthcare by creating the mHealth Initiative. TEPR had grown into a rather … Continue reading →

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Big health systems to promote connectivity

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Neil Versel

Geisinger Health System, Group Health Cooperative, Intermountain Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente and the Mayo Clinic will join together to promote sharing of electronic health data as part of a new organization called the Care Connectivity Consortium. The formal launch is set … Continue reading →

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