No matter if you are on the facility or the partner side of Revenue Cycle Management, there is a lot of information, both legal and regulatory, to keep up with to maximize reimbursements. Here are a few things of interest that we are reading right now: 
- "No improvement in patient access to online health records, ONC finds" The percentage of patients offered online access to their medical records didn't change from 2017 to 2018, remaining just above 50%, according to a new data brief from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. Article
- "Mike Pence's quiet takeover of HHS: 3 things to know". Vice President Mike Pence may be quietly influencing HHS' policies on family planning and religious protections for healthcare workers through top-level appointments and other ties to the agency, according to Politico. Article
- "EHR training is biggest predictor of user satisfaction, experts say" A better clinician experience makes for higher-quality patient care, according to a new report from KLAS' Arch Collaborative, which makes the case for bigger investment in end-user education. Article
