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As health information technology continues to advance the quality of patient care and patient outcomes, I am pleased to recognize the winners of the 2013 Modern Healthcare CEO IT Achievement Awards, in collaboration with the
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With the Oct. 1, 2014 deadline for the transition to ICD-10 diagnosis and procedures codes apparently set in stone, technology experts like Stephen Lieber, president and CEO of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, forecast how the change will unfold.
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In little more than 18 months, the U.S. healthcare industry is expected to join most of the industrialized world in the adoption of the International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision code system, which promises to be the biggest single-day switch in healthcare information technology since...
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Modern Healthcare asks industry leaders such as Dr. William Bria, Dr. Farzad Mostashari and Dr. Eric Topol to identify the next big healthcare apps.
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Mobile healthcare apps are multiplying fast and putting a vast array of new tools in the hands of patients and the providers who deliver their care. The pace and scope of innovation makes it hard to imagine what app developers will create next. So we put the question to some of the thinkers in the...
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Former President Bill Clinton said that the main cause of the nation's long-term budget problem is its healthcare costs.
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As the 2013 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition opens in New Orleans on March 3, I think of HIMSS07, our last conference in the city, less than two years after Hurricane Katrina.
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The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society plans to invest $1 million to open 25,000 square feet of exhibition, demonstration and interoperability testing space in the Global Center for Health Innovation in Cleveland, formerly the Cleveland Medical Mart.
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This year's ranking of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare includes 18 newcomers as well as eight honorees who have been on every list since it started in 2002.
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Dr. John Armstrong was appointed Florida's surgeon general and secretary of the state's health department. He starts May 23. Armstrong is an associate professor of surgery at Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida in Tampa and chief medical officer for the USF Health...
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