NEW ORLEANS—According to the Workgroup for Electronic Data Exchange (WEDI), ICD-10 is expected to be the most costly government-mandated change ever to hit the healthcare industry, Mike Hourigan, RN, senior practice manager at Cerner, told an audience March 4 at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.

NEW ORLEANS—The 24th annual HIMSS Leadership Survey, sponsored by Infor, revealed that health IT leaders are making headway toward Stage 2 Meaningful Use (MU) requirements and ICD-10 preparations, but they fear the lack of well-trained IT employees to support their needs. The results were presented March 4 at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.

NEW ORLEANS—Transitioning from siloed imaging to an enterprise environment delivers multiple benefits and costs can be reduced by leveraging existing technology, according to a March 4 presentation at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.

NEW ORLEANS—These “exciting times” of healthcare reform and IT overhaul have given birth to great technological changes in the provider setting, but improvements in interoperability and patient engagement still present challenges, said Judy Murphy, RN, deputy national coordinator for programs and policy at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT during her March 3 lecture at the 2013 CIO Forum.