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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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Healthcare CIO angst and attendance at this year's HIMSS conference and exhibition both are at record highs. That's the takeaway from this morning's HIMSS media brunch in Las Vegas.
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Last year at this time, the first meaningful-use incentive payments from the CMS grabbed the headlines with January 2011 as the inaugural month for the exchange of funds between the federal government and eligible hospitals and providers.
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The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society is on track to reach door-busting, record attendance figures at its annual show later this month, according to H. Stephen Lieber, the Chicago-based healthcare IT industry trade group's president and CEO.
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H. Stephen Lieber, president and CEO of the Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, went to bat for health information technology in a response to the Institute of Medicine's report this week on patient-safety issues created by the use of computerized medical-record...
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This year's ranking of the 100 Most Influential People includes 27 newcomers as well as 10 honorees who have been on every list since it started in 2002.
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Recognizing executive leadership in understanding the benefits of health information technology to their organizations' goals, I am happy to congratulate the recipients of the 2011 CEO IT Achievement Awards, co-sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and Modern...
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Dr. David Blumenthal, the outgoing head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, declared the dawn of “the age of meaningful use” in his keynote speech last week during the HIMSS 2011 national convention in Orlando, Fla.
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HIMSS closed its 2011 convention on Thursday drawing a record-breaking 31,225 attendees, the Chicago-based trade group announced.
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For the past year, much of the focus in the health information technology world has been on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and the resulting regulations issued in December 2009. We should take a moment during this implementation phase to reflect on how we got here.
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