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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have been voicing their concerns and seeking public comments regarding the current evaluation and management (E/M) documentation guidelines. CMS understands that... Continue Reading

Recently on August 2nd, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized policies to advance with the MyHealthEData initiative and the CMS Patients Over Paperwork Initiative. The CMS updated... Continue Reading

What about Instagram? Instagram is one of the fastest-growing social media platforms, it is estimated that in the United States alone by 2019 there will be an estimated 111 million active users. Of these users,... Continue Reading

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently announces plans to issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to better protect personally identifiable information or... Continue Reading

After arriving back to my office from attending a conference planning meeting with the American Association of Orthopaedic Executives (AAOE), at the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville. As a member of the Industry... Continue Reading

In the event of a disaster natural or otherwise difficult decisions may need to be made without hesitation. One such decision may be whether you should evacuate or "shelter in place." An example of when it may... Continue Reading

Facebook Last year, Facebook announced they have 2.01 billion monthly users. The daily percentage of users is less but is still an impressive 1.32 billion users that are actively using Facebook daily. What... Continue Reading

Social media usage is commonplace in our day-to-day lives and most of us use various types of social media platforms. Social Media is fun and convenient providing quick access to and posting information, ideas,... Continue Reading

It turns out, the change from Advancing Care Information to Promoting Interoperability is part of something much bigger. So much bigger, that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announcement said... Continue Reading

In 2017, most healthcare organizations were very familiar with the Advancing Care Information (ACI) category under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). And we became very familiar with the ACI acronym.... Continue Reading