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May 12, 2008
NPI Contingency Status Survey Data and Free Summary Released
Healthcare IT Transition Group conducted The National Provider Identifier Contingency Status Survey to gather data from provider, payer and clearinhouse respondents. Some Medicare providers have had payments put on indefinite hold, thanks to the implicit complexities of implementing the National Provider Identifier, plus some additional hindrances caused by actions of CMS. How big are these problems? This survey was designed to tell the industry just that... Click to learn more, or to order the free results data package.
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February 26, 2008
Animation for HISsie Awards at HIMSS
Healthcare IT Transition Group participated at HIMSS08 in an unusual way. Our media studio produced a seven-minute animated cartoon to introduce the 2008 HISsie Awards. Starring cartoon caricatures of athenahealth's Jonathan Bush and Cerner's Neal Patterson, not to mention HIStalk's Inga and Mr. HIStalk, the cartoon's premiere at HIMSS08 on Monday night was "boffo," says Mr. H. Click to view the cartoon video.
February 16, 2008
NEW VIDEOS: Real-Time Adjudication, Health IT ROI and Defeating Denial Engines
Healthcare IT Transition Group's research and analysis -- available previously only as publications and webinars -- are now being released as fully-produced videos on DVD. The first titles, Real-Time Adjudication Drivers and Deliverables, Getting ROI from Health IT, and Defeating the Denial Engine are available now with free two-day shipping. Each video DVD comes with a companion CDROM containing course materials and additional resources. Click to learn more.
December 15 , 2007
The Health IT Grant Resource Directory 2008
Listing more than 4,000 private foundations, Community Foundations, corporate giving programs and other funding sources, HITTG analysts have developed the first directory of grant prospects for health IT. Designed for EMR, CPOE, CDSS and other healthcare technology funding efforts, as well as RHIOs and HIEs, the HIT GRD is published in five regionally-focused volumes. Click for more information.
 November 20 , 2007
WEDI Distinguished Service Award presented to Martin Jensen
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) has awarded its Distinguished Service Award to Martin Jensen, Chief Operating Officer of Healthcare IT Transition Group.
November 5, 2007
Have You HIT Bottom Yet?
Healthcare IT Transition Group's popular HIT Bottom cartoon series is now in a screensaver! It's totally free -- a humble little gift to our visitors! Click here to download our free Windows screensaver, then doubleclick the file to install it.
September 25, 2007
Web 2.0 Hits the HITSync Digest of Health IT
We're just tickled to death! Our popular enewsletter, HITSync, has been on hiatus for a bit, and now it's been rebuilt from the ground up with some of your favorite Web 2.0 features. Like your news opinionated, crisp and served up conveniently via one approximately-weekly email? Get HITSync! (What's not to like, it's free?)
Click to subscribe to HITSync Digest of Health IT version 2.0.
September 4, 2007
2007 U.S. RHIO Finance Data Released
Findings from the 2007 Survey of Regional Health Information Finance have been published. The 79-page report, titled Sustainable RHIO Funding and the Emerging Business Model, chides some in the industry whose commercial expectations for RHIO have complicated development of the health information exchange business space. The report also offers a look at RHIO technology purchase decisions and offers guarded estimate of the U.S. RHIO technology market by category. Click for the public summary or to order the full report.
Click to view the press release.
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As a service to the healthcare information technology community we provide this informative website, rich with health IT news, commentary and resources. While you're here, visit our HIT Transition Weblog, and our popular News Page. On a given day, 100 or more stories are filtered from thousands of health IT news items. They are organized for you on our News Page in topic areas such as Electronic Medical Records (EMR/EHR), Medicare/Medicaid, Claims, Reimbursements, HIPAA Compliance, Health Policy, Telemedicine and Medical Informatics.
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Consider subscribing to the HITSync, a free biweekly email magazine featuring the handful of top news stories on healthcare information technology topics. To save you time, the HITSync editors sift through hundreds of news and commentary articles from reliable sources and send you just the most important ones. Visit the HITSync archive to review recent issues. And stop by the HIT Bottom cartoon archive page for some outspoken editorial humor.
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HIT the road on our Events & Conferences page. We maintain an up-to-date, concise catalog of health information technology conferences devoted to standards development, health IT information, health policy and related medical technologies.
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Healthcare IT Transition Group will help you stay abreast of changes in standards and policy from the panoply of public policy, analysis, education and standards development bodies: Congress, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), ONCHIT, NAHIT, CCHIT, HL7, X12, WEDI, AFEHCT, AHIMA, HIMSS, and AHIC among many others. (Click here for a descriptive listing of current U.S. federal HIT programs.)
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