By Jennifer Lubell / HITS staff writer |
March 18, 2010
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Basic Web Registration To successfully implement the broad use of electronic health records, the CMS needs to make its health goals and targets more explicit, according to public comments submitted by healthcare leaders from 56 organizations on... FULL STORY »
March 18, 2010
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Basic Web Registration In response to Joseph Conn's "Danish docs, specialists all use EHRs: report":This is an extremely useful article and should be read... FULL STORY »
By Shawn Rhea / HITS staff writer |
March 18, 2010
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Basic Web Registration An updated set of guidelines aimed at making radiation treatment of 16 organs safer have been published as a supplement to the current issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics. FULL STORY »
By Jessica Zigmond / HITS staff writer |
March 18, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Healthcare cost management provider MultiPlan said it has completed its acquisition of Naperville, Ill.-based Viant, which provides cost-control strategies to healthcare payers through its PPO network, network management,... FULL STORY »
March 18, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The nomination deadline for Modern Healthcare's eighth annual CEO IT Achievement Award competition is Friday, March 19. The 2010 award, co-sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, honors... FULL STORY »
By Melanie Evans / HITS staff writer |
March 18, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Jim Quist has been named to the newly created role of CEO of CarePayment, a healthcare consumer finance limited liability company. Quist has also been named chairman of the Lake Oswego, Ore.-based Care Payment, which was... FULL STORY »
By Andis Robeznieks / HITS staff writer |
March 17, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The American Medical Association, which reported last month that most states’ insurance markets are controlled by only two companies, has... FULL STORY »
By Gregg Blesch / HITS staff writer |
March 17, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The Joint Commission named John Mache as its new chief information officer. Mache comes to the Joint Commission from ACCO Brands Corp., where he was global vice president of information technology for the Lincolnshire,... FULL STORY »
By Joseph Conn / HITS staff writer |
March 17, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Denmark residents pay slightly more out-of-pocket for their healthcare, on a percentage basis, at 13.8% of total household per capita healthcare spending, than do Americans, at 12.2%. But Danes are guaranteed health... FULL STORY »
By Vince Galloro / HITS staff writer |
March 17, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Athenahealth, Watertown, Mass., said an internal review of its accounting policies has led to the company restating its financial reports from 2005 through the third quarter of 2009. The company, which provides electronic... FULL STORY »
March 17, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The nomination deadline for Modern Healthcare's eighth annual CEO IT Achievement Award competition is Friday, March 19. The 2010 award, co-sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, honors... FULL STORY »
By Andis Robeznieks / HITS staff writer |
March 16, 2010
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Basic Web Registration To facilitate meaningful use of electronic health records, the CMS should abandon its all-or-nothing approach to awarding financial incentives, eliminate goals and measures that don't directly apply to EHR adoption, and... FULL STORY »
By Andis Robeznieks / HITS staff writer |
March 16, 2010
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Basic Web Registration FiatLux Imaging, a Redmond, Wash.-based provider of Internet-based medical imaging data services, has named Max Lyon as its CEO. He replaces Mary Frances Feider, who was one of the company's three co-founders when it was... FULL STORY »
By Jessica Zigmond / HITS staff writer |
March 16, 2010
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Basic Web Registration HHS has announced $162 million in awards to 16 states and state-designated... FULL STORY »
March 16, 2010
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Basic Web Registration In response to Andis Robeznieks' "Patient safety must start in classroom: report":With physicians, especially... FULL STORY »
March 16, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The nomination deadline for Modern Healthcare's eighth annual CEO IT Achievement Award competition is Friday, March 19. The 2010 award, co-sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, honors... FULL STORY »
By Shawn Rhea / HITS staff writer |
March 15, 2010
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Basic Web Registration The Institute for Safe Medication Practices has developed a set of guidelines aimed at helping providers create drug-prescribing... FULL STORY »
By Andis Robeznieks / HITS staff writer |
March 15, 2010
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Basic Web Registration Healthcare delivery continues to be unsafe and will probably remain that way for some time unless medical schools make substantial improvements in how they teach patient safety, according to FULL STORY »
By Andis Robeznieks / HITS staff writer |
March 15, 2010
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Basic Web Registration HealthCentral, an Arlington, Va.-based purveyor of health and wellness information portals, has promoted Sastry Nanduri to the position of chief technology officer. FULL STORY »
March 15, 2010
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Basic Web Registration In response to Joseph Conn's "Lab guidance update upstaged by certification rule":As stated recently by two articles by Conn about... FULL STORY »
