ORLANDO—Hillary Rodham Clinton thanked audience members for their work in health IT during her keynote address at the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.

The halls are buzzing, educational sessions are lively and feet and backs are aching. Just another day at HIMSS14!

ORLANDO—The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT held a Town Hall meeting at the Health Information and Management Systems Society’s annual conference during which members of the office’s leadership team shared how they are working to advance the national health IT agenda.

ORLANDO—Will there be another delay in ICD-10 implementation? “That is not an option that is being considered,” said Matthew Albright, director of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Office of E-Health Standards and Services, speaking to Clinical Innovation + Technology at the Health Information and Management Systems Society’s annual conference.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service has responded to calls for more thorough ICD-10 testing, announcing that it will conduct end-to-end testing to a small sample group of providers this summer.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) announced that it will conduct end-to-end ICD-10 testing to a small sample group of providers this summer.

Another group has called federal ICD-10 testing plans into question. This time, a group of Republican senators have sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Administrator Marilyn Tavenner warning that inadequate testing of ICD-10 code sets could result in "system-wide errors and delay[s]" similar to those that hampered the launch of HealthCare.gov.

A few days after initiating new legislation to decrease FDA’s regulatory authority over mobile health, Sens. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) and Angus King (I-Maine) penned an editorial in USA Today asserting that the agency’s slow regulatory processes hinder innovation.