Mass. EHR competency regs final; Top HIPAA breaches of 2014;

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> The Massachusetts Board of Registration of Medicine has finalized regulations that outline how physicians must demonstrate that they're adept at using electronic health records as a condition of maintaining their medical licenses. Article

> As organizations continue to argue whether to keep the ICD-10 compliance date as Oct. 1 of this year, others are warning that to be unprepared will spell trouble for many providers. Article

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