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Detailed record-keeping is essential to surviving an EHR incentive payment audit and it's doubly important with Stage 2 meaningful use and ICD-10, IT leaders like Pam McNutt say.
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Only one ultrasound in nine months and no need to see the doctor or obstetrician: at first glance, Sweden's pregnancy care appears rather simplistic. But while it may be far from the medical approach seen in most Western countries, where mothers-to-be have loads of doctor's appointments and tests,...
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A year ago, few people outside of the pharmacy sector knew much about drug compounding. Now the industry is at the center of legal and regulatory action.
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An experiment that showed the felicitous effects of listening to Italian opera for mice after a heart transplant was among the winners at this year's Ig Nobel Prize ceremony.
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Novartis says it is investigating claims that its eye-care unit, Alcon, bribed doctors in over 200 hospitals in China to promote its lens implants.
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A group of surgeons in the U.S., through the Union of Syrian Medical Relief Organizations and the Syrian American Medical Society, is assisting with Syria's increasing medical needs without ever entering a Syrian operating room.
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Chinese authorities visited a local office of German drugmaker Bayer in late August to investigate a potential case of unfair competition, the company said on Friday.
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The head of the Commonwealth Fund announced that the 95-year-old foundation will adopt a new direction, including tracking the progress of the federal healthcare reform law and the performance of the nation's healthcare system.
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The AFL-CIO on Wednesday approved a resolution critical of parts of President Barack Obama's healthcare law in spite of efforts by White House officials to discourage the labor federation from making its concerns so prominent.
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Being short on cash may make you a bit slower in the brain, a new study suggests.
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