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Mass. A.G. finds cost, quality incongruity in state healthcare system

Industry News | Tuesday, February 02 2010
 

HHS: States have to adopt adverse licensure action reporting system

Industry News | Monday, February 01 2010
 

Breaking Down The Walls of Home Health IT

Features | Monday, February 01 2010
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California Medicare recipients expected to grow by 131% in 20 years

Industry News | Friday, January 29 2010
 

CBO: Healthcare spending continues to grow faster than U.S. economy

Industry News | Thursday, January 28 2010
 

CMS makes public meaningful use comments

Industry News | Wednesday, January 27 2010
 

HealthGrades: Top hospitals have 29% lower mortality, improving faster

Top Stories | Tuesday, January 26 2010
 

Arkansas foundation installs MEDecision software

Contracts & Installations | Tuesday, January 12 2010
 

CIOs explore how meaningful use proposals will impact providers

Web Exclusives | Monday, January 11 2010
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Webinar: Healthcare professionals weigh in on meaningful use

Web Exclusives | Monday, January 11 2010
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MediConnect acquires PHR provider PassportMD

Mergers & Acquisitions | Monday, January 11 2010
 

Bioheart, distributors partner to vend home heart failure monitoring system

Partnerships & Alliances | Friday, January 08 2010
 

CHIME questions new meaningful use proposals

Industry News | Thursday, January 07 2010
 

NEJM: Publicly reporting data doesn’t change readmission rates

Clinical Studies | Sunday, January 03 2010
 

CBO: Senate healthcare bill would reduce deficit by $132B

Top Stories | Wednesday, December 23 2009
 

Detroit investigates two medical record breaches

Top Stories | Thursday, December 17 2009
 

CMS places limits on recovery audit contractors in 2010

Industry News | Friday, December 11 2009
 

HRSA to dispense $600M to community health centers to bolster health IT

Top Stories | Thursday, December 10 2009
 

MGMA to Blumenthal: ARRA isn’t being implemented properly

Top Stories | Tuesday, November 24 2009
 

House repeals 21.2% physician rate cut, SGR formula

Top Stories | Friday, November 20 2009
 


Web Exclusives

mHealth VP: Healthcare communications should be more virtual

C. Peter Waegemann, MD, vice president for development for mHealth, spoke with CMIO about the necessity of new communication patterns in healthcare, a topic on which he presented during the International mHealth Networking Conference Feb. 3-4 in Washington, D.C. The conference was sponsored by the Boston-based healthcare organization mHealth Initiative.

Q&A: New York-Presbyterian offers patients a self-serve PHR

 Patients checking into New York-Presbyterian (NYP) Hospital can create an account that enables them to view their health data and have access to it wherever and whenever they need it.

Webinar: Meaningful use has positives, uncertainties and a few fantasies

 The progress toward defining meaningful use has been impressive, but the timeline may be too compressed for many, said Steven Stack, MD, member of the board of trustees at the American Medical Association (AMA), last week, during the eHealth Initiative's second Webinar on meaningful use. “Also, to digitize 20 percent of the U.S. economy in a three- to five-year period, there’s not enough workforce to do that,” Stack said.

Webinar: Panel discusses future of e-prescribing

 E-prescribing could help improve coordination of patient care, although barriers including cost and lack of standards need to be worked out, said speakers at a Webinar hosted by the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit eHealth Initiative.

CIOs explore how meaningful use proposals will impact providers

 The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) proposed rules for incentive payments to eligible healthcare professionals and hospitals participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs that adopt and meaningfully use certified EHR technology is the result of unprecedented collaboration among leaders from all areas of healthcare. However, the 556-page document, released Dec. 30, 2009, is raising questions and concerns in the healthcare community--some of which were raised by two CIOs in a CMIO interview.

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