More than half of U.S. states are failing at transparency when it comes to disclosing costs for healthcare services, according to Health Care Incentive Institute and Catalyst for Payment Reform’s March 18 report on state price transparency laws.

CIOs around the country have a lot on their plate right now, according to Marc Probst, vice president and CIO of Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City. Probst spoke about one of the biggest issues in health IT, Meaningful Use, at the Health Information Management Systems Society annual meeting in New Orleans, and Clinical Innovation + Technology recently caught up with him to get his take on how the initiative is rolling out.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a 57-page guidance document for qualified health plan issuers participating in federally-facilitated state partnership exchanges, which are set to go live October 2013.

With the growth of the tablet and smartphone market, U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee members requested clarity from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on its regulatory authority over mobile medical applications, and whether mobile device manufacturers could be subject to excise taxes pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

The Federal Trade Commission, together with the Idaho Attorney General, filed a complaint in federal district court seeking to block St. Luke’s Health System’s acquisition of Idaho's largest independent, multispecialty physician practice group, Saltzer Medical Group.

NEW ORLEANS—Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, in New Brunswick, N.J., survived a failed EMR implementation effort before it could experience a successful one, according to Nicole Martinez, BSN, RN, director of nursing informatics, who spoke during the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society annual convention.

NEW ORLEANS—“Everyone focuses on the increasing numbers of codes” that will come with the shift from ICD-9 to ICD-10, but the new coding system impacts everyone and everything from revenue cycle to patient access to health information management, said Tom Ormondroyd, MBA, vice president and general manager of elearning solutions for Precyse during an educational session at the Health Information Management and Systems Society annual convention.

Three out of four providers are still 25 percent or less completed in their ICD-10 implementation process and one-third of respondents have not yet started the process, according to a survey from consulting firm Aloft Group.