Healthcare reform, hospital physician alignment, compliance effectiveness, and HIPAA Privacy/Data Breach are all adding complexity to the regulatory compliance challenges facing healthcare professionals. The 2017 Compliance Institute, presented by Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA), will help you bring order to this seeming chaos. Join us for the most comprehensive conference for today's healthcare compliance professional.

HIMSS in collaboration with Bellevue College is offering a free Introduction to Health Care Data Analytics course.  Course begins March 12 and must be completed by May 20.

• Enhance your career with in-demand skills with this free one-time opportunity
• Earn 20 CEs upon course completion
• Online, self-paced, approximately 25 hours
• Optional interaction with other participants through discussion forums
• Complete on your own schedule between 3/12 and 5/20

This presentation will focus on current research that explains the most prevalent cyber attacks plaguing the healthcare industry, outline security technology that can best keep clinical staff safe from cyber attacks and provide a framework that hospitals can utilize to augment their security posture.  

CMS will host a webinar on Thursday, February 16, 2017 that will provide an overview of the Annual MIPS Call for Measures and Activities. Stakeholders and providers will have an opportunity to ask questions. 

Health Catalyst published the inaugural version of the Healthcare Analytics Adoption Model in 2012, a proposed framework to measure the adoption and meaningful use of data warehouses and analytics in healthcare in ways similar to the well-known HIMSS Analytics EMRAM model. A second version of the Health Analytics Adoption Model was released in 2013.

This can be a helpful framework for understanding what is infrastructure and processes are needed to use data successfully to manage the health of your population and engage in alternative payment arrangements that continue to gain traction.