by Max Gottlieb It’s already September. Summer is almost over. October 1 is just over the horizon, followed quickly by Halloween, a far less frightening date. For most of the healthcare world, October 1 marks the switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10. However, as far as the actual people implementing the code are concerned, October […]

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Three Vendors are  the focus of this week’s Vendor News segment.  Here are the headlines that say it all: Independa Named #1 Technology in Senior Care at CES 2014; Availity Announces ICD-10 Readiness; and BlackTree opens Clinical Consulting division. Read on for many more details about these companies’ newsmaking efforts.

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  The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference takes place amid growing pressure on the health care industry and the Obama administration to move forward with interoperability. But HIMSS Vice President for Informatics, Joyce Sensmeier, says the keys for sharing patient data among different IT systems, devices and platforms already exist. She was interviewed […]

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