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The 300 nominees for Modern Healthcare's 12th annual 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare competition.
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HHS and the Federal Communications Commission have formed a joint advisory panel to improve patient safety and promote innovation in health information technology.
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The tools required to remake the beleaguered U.S. healthcare system into one that's safe, cost-effective and patient-centered are available right now, according to an Institute of Medicine report.
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When it comes to hitting meaningful-use targets, batting .800 ought to be good enough.
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A first glimpse at what the Stage 3 meaningful-use criteria might require may be made public by August.
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The rush to digitize patient information may produce unintended casualties if hospitals do not invest adequate time, effort and money in training their staffs to correctly use health IT.
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Looking for some prominent physician leaders? Chances are they work in Washington. Physicians employed by the federal government or public health advisory organizations dominate the latest list of the 50 Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare.
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The ranked roster of the 50 Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare for 2011.
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Hospitals, physicians and their information technology leaders will have to plunge forward in meeting the government's criteria for meaningful use of health IT without the Obama administration's ubiquitous evangelist for the cause.
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On Sept. 29, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), citing a lack of bipartisan support, announced he was, for the time being, throwing in the towel on a legislative effort to end the long-standing regulatory—and political—uncertainty regarding what...
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