West Virginia news and information

David Elyard, a health IT coordinator in West Virginia's bureau of behavior health and health facilities, drove the winding roads of his mountainous state last week to trouble-shoot the launch of the computerized laboratory information module being added onto the predominately open-source VistA...
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Few states plow as much money per capita into healthcare as West Virginia, but you wouldn't know it from the results. A new report urges major changes in health services and the government department that helps provide them.
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The West Virginia legislature has moved to limit the liability that nursing homes can face in potential lawsuits.
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The West Virginia Health Information Network has posted an online survey tool for use by providers to assess their readiness for connecting to the statewide health information exchange network via their electronic health-record system.
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Medical school graduates in West Virginia are graduating with hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loans, which could eventually lead to a shortage of physicians in the Mountain State.
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A Medicaid redesign by West Virginia that aimed to give recipients individual choices and responsibility had unintended consequences, according to a recent report by George Mason University's Mercatus Center.
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The 227-bed Southern Ohio Medical Center in Portsmouth consistently scores in the 90s on patient-satisfaction survey percentiles, including 99th on employee satisfaction, yet the healthcare center is not satisfied with those scores, leaders say.
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A bill relating to the reimbursement of medical records fees didn't pass the West Virginia Legislature this year, but one committee is taking a second look at the issue.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia lawmakers say last week's interim study meetings raised several red flags about multimillion-dollar contracts awarded through the Department of Health and Human Resources.
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Long-term-care providers are facing growing medical liability costs that are rising at about 4% annually and expected to keep climbing, according to a report from Aon Global Risk Consulting.
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