By Associated Press November 19, 2009 Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said that health insurer Health Net lost financial, health and personal information of nearly 450,000 state residents and failed to inform consumers for six months. ... FULL STORY
By Joseph Conn / HITS staff writer November 19, 2009 Hospitals and physicians have a little more than 13 months to buy, implement and demonstrate that they can “meaningfully use” an electronic health-record system to be ready for the first “payment... ... FULL STORY
By Jean DerGurahian / HITS staff writer November 19, 2009 William Gerraughty Jr. was promoted to chief operating officer in addition to his role as chief financial officer at Sparta Systems. ... FULL STORY
By Jean DerGurahian / HITS staff writer November 19, 2009 HHS awarded Computer Sciences Corp. a contract to compete on various information technology task orders. ... FULL STORY
By Joseph Conn / HITS staff writer November 18, 2009 What's next for Mark Leavitt? Think of lasagna.Leavitt said he'll turn 60 in mid-March and wants to be out of the job by the end of the month, and then he'll add what he describes as another layer to his career while... ... FULL STORY
November 18, 2009 In response to Jean DerGurahian's "HIMSS going to Vegas for 2012 conference":The reason the members chose Las Vegas... ... FULL STORY
By Shawn Rhea / HITS staff writer November 18, 2009 The American College of Radiology has criticized a new set of breast cancer screening recommendations from a federal advisory board that suggest... ... FULL STORY
By Shawn Rhea / HITS staff writer November 18, 2009 Minneapolis-based devicemaker Medtronic has received a Food and Drug Administration warning letter regarding an August 2009 inspection of the company's cardiac-rhythm-device production facilities in Mounds View, Minn. ... FULL STORY
By Joseph Conn / HITS staff writer November 17, 2009 The Health Information Trust Alliance, commonly known as HITrust, a consortium of health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, information technology vendors and data-miners formed to address health IT security issues, has... ... FULL STORY
By Joseph Conn / HITS staff writer November 17, 2009 So far, about 180 federal officials and representatives from a host of private organizations have registered to convene on the campus of Portland (Ore.) State University later this week for a two-day ... FULL STORY
By Joseph Conn / HITS staff writer November 17, 2009 Thousands of “business associates” handle millions of our healthcare records on behalf of so-called “covered entities” as those terms are defined under the Health Insurance Portability and... ... FULL STORY
By Rebecca Vesely / HITS staff writer November 17, 2009 Proposed rules on the meaningful use of electronic health records will be made public by the end of the year or perhaps sooner, said David Blumenthal, national coordinator for health information technology at HHS.In a... ... FULL STORY
November 17, 2009 Do you agree with HHS' interpretation of the new breach notification rule law that hospitals, physicians and other so-called "covered entities" should... ... FULL STORY
By Jean DerGurahian / HITS staff writer November 16, 2009 HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius named seven healthcare professionals to the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. ... FULL STORY
By Jean DerGurahian / HITS staff writer November 16, 2009 Hospitals will face even greater quality pressure as the CMS begins to require public reporting of outpatient measures on its Web site Hospital Compare.Beginning in June 2010, ... FULL STORY
By Jean DerGurahian / HITS staff writer November 16, 2009 United Marketing Group said it has entered into an agreement in principle to buy Del Global Technologies Corp.’s Del Medical Imaging business. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ... FULL STORY
November 16, 2009 Do you agree with HHS' interpretation of the new breach notification rule law that hospitals, physicians and other so-called "covered entities" should... ... FULL STORY
