As of now, ICD-10 is a go for Oct. 1, 2015, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is helping stakeholders get ready, announcing an end-to-end testing period for providers and guidance for testing.

While some healthcare organizations are pushing for a two-year delay to the Oct. 1, 2015, ICD-10 implementation date, two House committee leaders issued a joint statement expressing their support for maintaining the deadline for the transition.

The Institute of Medicine Committee on Social and Behavioral Domains and Measures for EHRs formally presented recommendations to the Health IT Policy Committee calling for the inclusion of certain standard measures for social and behavioral domains in federal certification and incentive programs.

Jon White, who joined the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT as acting chief medical officer in October, will now assume the role of acting deputy national coordinator.

In the ongoing saga of ICD-10 implementation, opposing sides continue to advocate their positions.

U.S. healthcare spending grew at the slowest rate on record since 1960, according to a report from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

A group of 15 professional organizations sent a letter to congressional leaders asking them not to issue any further delays to the current ICD-10 implementation date of Oct. 1, 2015.

New data suggests that the costs and efforts related to ICD-implementation for small physician offices have been overestimated, according to a study in the Journal of the American Health Information Management Association.