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The Medical Group Management Association, which represents medical practice leaders across the country, has signed up for space in the Catalyst Health-Tech Innovation development, a new healthcare technology hub in Denver. It will join other health-focused organizations, practice groups, health finance companies and high-tech organizations as a tenant. [Also: Extend meaningful use reporting, says MGMA] MGMA, which represents more than 33,000 medical practice administrators and executives in practices of all sizes, types, structures and specialties, is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, with a government affairs office in Washington, D.C. The 5,000-square-foot addition to MGMA's existing campus in Englewood will be part of the Catalyst Health-Tech Innovation development, which encompasses a full city block in the River North neighborhood of Denver. [Like Healthcare IT News on Facebook] The additional space will provide an environment for MGMA staff and leaders to collaborate with other industry leaders on developing efficient and cost-effective strategies for medical practices and improving care for patients, said MGMA President and CEO Halee Fischer-Wright, MD, in a statement. The hub is slated to open in 2018. Twitter: @Bernie_HITN

You probably already know Bill Bunting as @WTBunting. But even his 13,800 Twitter followers might not know what fuels the HIMSS16 Social Media Ambassador’s passion for, in his words, “shifting the future of healthcare … so that we all have a voice.” The Director of Healthcare Solutions at storage giant EMC shared what he hopes to learn at this year’s HIMSS conference, why he wanted to be a Social Media Ambassador, a health IT prediction for 2016, and more. [Also: HIMSS reveals Social Media Ambassadors for HIMSS16] And in the spirit of social media, Bunting answered these questions via Twitter. Where else? Q: For starters, here, what inspired you to apply for the Social Media Ambassador program? A: The opportunity to be part of a group of like-minded individuals all out for the cause of improving the healthcare of tomorrow. While we are all friends online, we rarely use our abilities together, and the SMA program offers us the ability to help spread the message of industry change as a unified force. And I’m in it for also the ability to learn more from my peers and really put the value of social media to work in healthcare. Q: What’s something about you that even your devout followers likely don’t know? A: High functioning Aspergers often gets the best of my abilities to express points-of-view correctly, but it’s also part of why I am so passionate about shifting the future of healthcare — so that we all have a voice, we are all treated equally, and we all have the best possible care available to us. Q: What are you most looking forward to learning about at HIMSS16? A: I always look forward to the sessions and the knowledge that can be taken away from my peers. But in recent years I have found an affinity for those vendors off the beaten path on the exhibition floor. Many of them have extraordinary technology, but only a few make it to the big leagues. It’s always fun to explore what they have to offer and hear their take on the future of our industry. Q: One health IT prediction for 2016? A: Venture capital funding will slow down for digital health startups as the market consolidates and larger entrants begin to place their claim. I also feel organizational adoption of digital technologies will pick up finally as innovation accelerates and consumers become more involved, active participants in monitoring their health. Q: What is the untold benefit of social media in healthcare today? A: I hope that social media turns into a virus that healthcare avoids finding an antidote for because it holds tremendous potential for connecting providers and patients on a level once never imagined — allowing for better patient engagement and empathy. But it also holds value for patients to connect with other patients to tell their stories and share knowledge. Twitter: @SullyHIT

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A new module will enable users to snap pictures with smartphones and tablets and then saving them to the Carestream platform and integrating them with an EHR.

Though longtime CIO Edward Marx, vice president at the Advisory Board Company, has won several awards as leader in the health IT sector, according to him it's nurses who should be the most recognized in healthcare.

Nebraska Medicine, comprising the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Bellevue Medical Center and UNMC Physicians, will be recognized at the 2016 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas for achieving Stage 7.

The model will use risk stratification to help identify Medicare patients most at risk of a first heart attack or stroke in the next year.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator announced Monday that CMS would extend the deadline for commenting on quality reporting and certification of EHR products. CMS posted the extension notice on the Federal Register. As first outlined in the request for information, which was posted on the Federal Register on Dec. 31, 2015, CMS and ONC seek public comment on several items related to the certification of health information technology. [Also: CMS, ONC seek feedback on quality measures reporting] These include EHR products used for reporting to the EHR incentive programs and certain CMS quality reporting programs such as – but not limited to – the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program and the Physician Quality Reporting System. CMS and ONC want industry perspective how often to require recertification, the number of clinical quality measures a certified health IT module should be required to certify and ways to improve testing of certified health IT modules.  [Like Healthcare IT News on Facebook] That feedback will help inform CMS and ONC about what factors may need to be considered for future rules relating to the reporting of quality measures under CMS programs. The two agencies note the request for information is part of the effort of CMS to streamline and reduce the burden around government requirements for eligible professionals, eligible hospitals, critical access hospitals and health IT developers. Twitter: @HealthITNews

While the Republican candidates mostly spar over how they will repeal Obamacare, Democrats say they would build on the existing reform.

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