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When he heard that the CMS had redesigned its Physician Compare website, Dr. Douglas Denham checked it out.
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The old joke in healthcare research is that nearly every study concludes that more studies are needed. But two new studies on the high cost of low-benefit prostate cancer treatments support that humorous observation.
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With 16 months left before the CMS expects the healthcare industry to flip the switch to ICD-10, physicians are still expressing significant worries with the readiness of the technology that has to be upgraded to pull it off.
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The nation's health information technology system passed a major milestone last month when the government announced that more than half of all U.S. physicians now use electronic health records.
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Observers agree that finding qualified coders could be challenging.as hospitals and other healthcare providers move forward on ICD-10.
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Like partners choosing up for a dance—or, depending on one's outlook for the healthcare industry, teams forming for a game of dodgeball—providers organizations aiming to be early adopters of Big Data and large-scale analytics programs are busy picking out their advisers and IT providers.
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When thousands of Gulf Coast residents fled Hurricane Katrina, many of their paper-based medical records were soaked or blown to the winds. Ever since, proponents of electronic health-record systems and health...
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Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in Whittier, Calif., is laying the groundwork for its next big advances in information technology.
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A showdown is shaping up between federal healthcare privacy regulators and the nation's largest pharmacies and pharmaceutical manufacturers over a healthcare privacy rule affecting upwards of 100 million prescription-refill reminders sent to patients each year.
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Deano Thornton, CEO of Winn Community Health Center, a federally qualified healthcare center in the small city of Winnfield, La., knew the clinic would need the most up-to-date tools for reaching out to his underserved community and coordinating with the other community health clinics across the...
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