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NewsHospitals worry about footing the bill for medical devices
Hospital executives are worried that the healthcare reform tax on medical devices that kicks in starting 2013 will hurt their bottom lines more than the device makers, reports the Hill's Healthwatch Read more...
Privacy breach insurance helps prevent worst-case scenarios
Hospitals and physician practices can buy a new kind of stand-alone insurance policy to shield themselves from losing too much money due to data breaches, American Medical News reports. The amount a Read more...
Grassley: Vendor 'gag orders' prevent HIT issues from being reported and resolved
Concerns from healthcare providers about errors and complications associated with using healthcare information technology have prompted Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) to send a lengthy list of Read more...
Study: Medical facilities to defer projects in '09
Hospitals and health systems postponed or canceled many capital investments in 2008, hamstrung by lack of access to capital. Now, it's looking like such projects will hang fire this year too, Read more...
Physicians support incentives for EMRs
A new study suggests that physicians generally support measures in the pending economic stimulus package that would pay to promote broader adoption of health information technology. However, they Read more...
Medical identity theft information still scarce
This week, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) held its town hall on medical identity theft as promised. Most of what people learned, however, was that Read more...
N.J. Blue plan files to go for-profit
New Jersey's Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield has filed with the state to convert from not-for-profit to for-profit status, in what it says is a bid to boost its financial options. In its filing Read more...
Live from HiMSS08: Mike Leavitt touts local health exchanges
Today at HiMSS, audiences were treated to a speech from Mike Leavitt, head of almighty HHS. Leavitt, who comes across as far more relaxed and informal than you might expect from a guy with his Read more...
AHA lobbies to fight cuts, boost health IT
Hospitals, if you're wondering whether the American Hospital Association is fighting for your interests on the Hill, here's one piece of evidence to ponder. The trade group apparently paid a lobbying Read more...
Trend: Hospital corps sell services to competitors
In a business facing the overhead hospitals do, just about anything you can do to lower costs makes sense. So it's little surprise--though still noteworthy--that hospital chains are increasingly Read more...
| Press ReleasesMedicomp Systems Hosts Quipstar, World's Favorite HIT Quiz Show, at HIMSS12CHANTILLY, Va., Feb. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Medicomp Systems will premiere Quipstar, World's Favorite HIT Quiz Show, on Tuesday, February 21 at HIMSS12. The interactive health information technology Read more >> Allscripts Invites Developers to Million Hearts InitiativeCHICAGO, Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Allscripts is taking a leading role in facilitating the delivery of the best possible care to patients with cardiovascular diseases through sponsorship of the Read more >> Imagine MD Has Increased Its Invested Capital by $10 Million in the Past 12 MonthsHealth Information Technology Company Gains Traction with Investments Totaling $25 MillionNEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Imagine MD, LLC today announced that the company has increased its Read more >> Archimedes’ Individualized Guidelines and Outcomes (IndiGO) Deployed at Tulsa Health System– Clinical application of Archimedes’ physician and patient decision support tool grows – SAN FRANCISCO & TULSA, Okla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Archimedes Inc., a healthcare modeling company, and Read more >> ICA Joins Multi-State Workgroup to Develop Connectivity Standards for Health DataInteroperability Group to Enhance and Hasten Connectivity Standards between Electronic Health Records and Health Information Exchanges NEW YORK & NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ICA ( Read more >> |
