The Federal Trade Commission announced today that it will further delay enforcement of the Red Flags Rule. Organizations now have until November 1, 2009, to become [...]

A new AHIMA toolkit helps HIM professionals steer their organizations through the Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program.  The “Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) Toolkit” includes background on [...]

The Department of Labor announced $125 million in funding for projects that train workers to pursue careers in healthcare. The department’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) [...]

CCHIT, the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology, has been the sole certification source for electronic health record products for some years now, but ARRA may [...]

Healthcare is a step closer to a definition for the “meaningful use” of health IT. The Health IT Policy Committee approved revised recommendations for the “meaningful [...]

AHIMA’s consumer Web site myPHR.com relaunched with a major redesign. The new site offers information on PHRs organized by seven major user groups: parents, students, seniors, [...]

This time last year the Journal surveyed members on their top coding challenges. High on the list were staffing shortages, with respondents citing trouble finding qualified [...]

Reports of health record breach violations have been pouring into the California Department of Public Health since the state began requiring healthcare entities to report all [...]