Business Solutions
- OHA Solutions
Hospitals continue to be challenged by higher operating costs, an increasing patient population that is getting both older and sicker, along with lower reimbursement. In order to help create an environment in which our members can be successful, the Ohio Hospital Association created OHA Solutions, a resource that brings the perspective of possibility to creating answers and solving issues facing Ohio hospitals.
 http://www.ohasolutions.com
Community Benefit
- Internal Revenue Service Form 990
On December 20, 2007, the IRS released a redesigned Form 990, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax, for tax year 2008 (to be filed in 2009 and later years). The new form incorporates comments and suggestions from the over 650 e-mails and letters received during the comment period, which closed on September 14, 2007.
The redesign of Form 990 is based on three guiding principles: enhancing transparency, promoting tax compliance, and minimizing the burden on the filing organization.
www.irs.gov/charities/article/0,,id=176613,00.html
Healthcare
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
A key element to the nation's 10-year strategy to bring health care into the 21st century by advancing the use of information technology. The AHRQ initiative includes more than $166 million in grants and contracts in 41 states to support and stimulate investment in health IT, especially in rural and underserved areas. Through these and other projects, AHRQ and its partners will identify challenges to health IT adoption and use, solutions and best practices for making health IT work, and tools that will help hospitals and clinicians successfully incorporate new IT.
healthit.ahrq.gov
- American Health Information Community (AHIC)
A federally-chartered advisory committee that provides input and recommendations to Health and Human Services (HHS) on how to make health records digital and interoperable, and assure that the privacy and security of those records are protected, in a smooth, market-led way.
www.hhs.gov/healthit/ahic.html
- California HealthCare Foundation
An independent philanthropy committed to improving the way health care is delivered and financed in California, and helping consumers make informed health care and coverage decisions.
www.chcf.org
- Connecting for Health
This public-private collaborative of more than 100 organizations is committed to enabling health professionals and patients to use information technology so that they can achieve the best care possible in emergency and routine situations, as well as in managing chronic illness.
www.connectingforhealth.org
- Foundation for eHealth Initiative
The primary goal of the Connecting Communities for Better Health Program is to advance the national health information infrastructure (NHII) through a set of community demonstration projects and related evaluation and dissemination activities to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare.
ccbh.ehealthinitiative.org
Healthcare Transparency
- Department of Health and Human Services
HHS is the U.S. government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. This link discusses their efforts for improving healthcare transparency.
www.hhs.gov/transparency
- Presidential Executive Order : Healthcare Transparency
On April 27, 2004 the President issued an Executive Order for Incentives for the Use of Health Information Technology and Establishing the Position of the National Health Information Technology Coordinator.
www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040427-4.html
HIPAA
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS "official site" for information about HIPAA. This link takes you directly to HIPAA specific pages within CMS web site.
www.cms.hhs.gov/HIPAAGenInfo/
- HIPAAdvisory
Phoenix Health System sponsors the HIPAA Advisory web site. This site contains links to many information articles related to HIPAA as well as other informative web sites.
www.hipaadvisory.com
- Massachusetts Health Data Consortium
The Massachusetts Health Data Consortium web site contains numerous links to interesting and important HIPAA related web sites.
www.mahealthdata.org
- The Heathcare Intelligence Network
An online news portal for healthcare management executives, provides continuously updated news and management information on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA.
www.hin.com
RHIO
- Utah Health Information Network
UHIN is a not-for-profit organization that is reducing the cost of Administrative Health Care through electronic transactions, electronic transaction standards, and education. UHIN is recognized as the first functioning RHIO in the country.
www.uhin.com
Standards
- American National Standards Institute
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a private, non-profit organization (501(c)3) that administers and coordinates the U.S. voluntary standardization and conformity assessment system.
www.ansi.org
- Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange
CAQH launched the Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) in January 2005 with the vision of giving providers access to eligibility and benefits information before or at the time of service using the electronic system of their choice for any patient or health plan.
CORE is more than 100 industry stakeholders - health plans, providers, vendors, CMS and other government agencies, associations, regional entities, standard-setting organizations and other healthcare entities. CORE participants maintain eligibility and benefits data for more than 130 million commercially insured lives plus Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.
www.caqh.org/benefits.php
- Council for Affordable Quality Health Care
CAQH, an unprecedented not-for-profit alliance of health plans, networks and trade associations, is a catalyst for industry collaboration on initiatives that simplify healthcare administration.
www.caqh.org
- Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange
Their mission is to provide leadership and guidance to the healthcare industry on how to use and leverage the industry's collective knowledge, expertise and information resources to improve the quality, affordability and availability of healthcare.
www.wedi.org
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