Press Releases from Healthcare IT Transition Group (3 total)
Service Offers Fast, Low-Cost Updates for Provider Taxonomy Seekers
Tulsa OK - Healthcare IT Transition Group (HITTG), one of the nation’s leading authorities on National Provider Identifier (NPI) implementation, has developed a low-cost data service for providers, billers and clearinghouses that have discovered they need to add Provider Taxonomy codes to their billing databases. Provider Taxonomy is a standard code set that specifies a healthcare provider’s specialty or care setting in electronic health insurance claims, and has been adopted…
Physicians Decline as Source of RHIO Income: A Good Thing?
Physicians were 88% less likely to be cited as a “significant source” of earned revenues by startup-stage Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) than they were a year ago. Physician contributions to RHIO earnings also dropped among more mature RHIOs.
The data comes from the annual Survey of Regional Health Information Organization Finance (http://rhio.hittransition.com). Investigators analyzing data from thirty-eight RHIOs report that some exchanges may be testing a “zero entry cost” model…
2007 Survey of Regional Health Information Organization Finance
The Annual Survey of Regional Health Information Organization Finance, conducted by Healthcare IT Transition Group in 2006 and 2007, gathered financial data from U.S. RHIOs (also called Health Information Exchanges) at all stages of development, from earliest startup through the most mature production stage. The survey team’s report, Sustainable RHIO Funding and the Emerging Business Model, is available at http://rhio.hittransition.com.
The sample included 23% of the estimated U.S. RHIO cohort.…
