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HRSA, Labor Department sign health IT training agreement

Health Resources and Services Administration Administrator Mary Wakefield on Monday announced that her agency and the U.S. Labor Department have signed an agreement to use existing resources at community colleges and technical colleges to support the training of health information technology......

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IT Everything: Healthcare IT Blog

by Joseph Conn

From coding to the core of the profession

There's been a running dialogue on the Listserv of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems of Information Systems since last week...

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Video News: What's ahead at HIMSS 2012 (1:41)

Modern Healthcare | February 17, 2012
Modern Healthcare Editor David Burda previews the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's 2012 annual conference in Las Vegas.
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Docs helping docs embrace IT

Maureen McKinney | February 11, 2012
At last year's HIMSS meeting, a small group of well-known health information technology leaders met to discuss the need to create a resource for...
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Rushing to comply

Joseph Conn | February 04, 2012
Hospitals, physicians and payers are all still scrambling to upgrade electronic billing systems and fix glitches to meet an already extended deadline...
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Featured Commentary

Her case shows why healthcare privacy laws exist

Los Angeles Times | January 04, 2012
Of all the personal information that you might want to keep private, your medical records are the most important.
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No sleight of hand

Wayne Winistorfer | November 07, 2011
People often imagine that healthcare information technology works a bit like “The Wizard of Oz,” where a genius behind the curtain does...
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CHIME Time

Commentary from members of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives

Planning crucial for ICD-10 readiness

Bill Spooner | February 13, 2012
The light at the end of the tunnel is not an oncoming train but ICD-10, according to one of our health information management leaders.
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Communication is key to making change work

Stephen Stewart | January 30, 2012
Sometimes I think that those of us in information technology—by nature being agents of change—find ourselves baffled about how difficult...
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Meaningful Use News

Video News: Live@HIMSS 2012 Day Two recap and preview (1:44)

Modern Healthcare | February 22, 2012
Modern Healthcare Assistant Digital Editor Christine LaFave Grace reviews Wednesday's sneak peek at Stage 2 meaningful-use requirements and looks...
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Official previews meaningful-use rules

Joseph Conn | February 22, 2012
ONC chief Dr. Farzad Mostashari gave an overflow crowd at HIMSS a sneak peek at the long-awaited first draft of the Stage 2 meaningful-use rules.
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Electronic Health Record (EHR) News

Video News: Live@HIMSS 2012 Interview with Dr. Stephen Beck, CMIO of Catholic Health Partners (7:42)

Modern Healthcare | February 22, 2012
Modern Healthcare reporter Joseph Conn talks with Dr. Stephen Beck, chief medical information officer for Catholic Health Partners, about CHP's...
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‘Profound change' coming to EHRs: Glaser

Joseph Conn | February 21, 2012
“There is no greater disruption to healthcare than changing the payment model,” said John Glaser, health-services CEO at Siemens.
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ICD-10 Compliance News

Past poll results

February 22, 2012
Yes: 6 (30%)No: 14 (70%)
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CHIME wants minimal delay on ICD-10

Rich Daly | February 22, 2012
Another health information technology group pushed back on the recent HHS decision to indefinitely delay implementation of ICD-10.
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Data Security News

How long before providers take the privacy rap?

February 17, 2012
I'm sure many of you, like me, are in HIMSS mode right now. So, I'm going to interrupt your packing for the Las Vegas meeting of the Healthcare...
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Calif. patient info compromised

KTLA (Los Angeles) | February 16, 2012
More than 21,000 hospital patients at two Orange County, Calif., hospitals may have had their medical records compromised.
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Mobile Health News

Surgeon general names mobile-app contest winners

Jaimy Lee | February 17, 2012
The Office of the Surgeon General named four mobile-phone applications the winners of the Healthy App Challenge. HHS' Office of the National...
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Law expands access to PTSD telehealth counseling

Army Times (Springfield, Va.) | February 07, 2012
The recent passage of the National Defense Authorization Act in Congress will make it easier for active-duty personnel and veterans to get mental...
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Telemedicine News

Using telemedicine to reach rural Okla.

Wisconsin Rapids (Wis.) Daily Tribune | February 17, 2012
The Oklahoma City-based Variety Care group of family health clinics is expanding mental healthcare to rural areas well beyond the not-for-profit's...
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Ga. lawmakers pass school-telemedicine bill

Associated Press via WRCB (Chattanooga, Tenn.) | February 16, 2012
Doctors could treat school students remotely under a bill approved by Georgia lawmakers.
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