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By Mike Miliard | 01:45 pm | October 07, 2014
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will reopen the submission period for meaningful use hardship exception applications.
By Bernie Monegain | 10:16 am | October 07, 2014
Even as it competes with the many showy distractions Las Vegas has to offer, the upcoming MGMA conference will be zeroing in on the complex and challenging issues facing physicians and practice managers today.
By Tom Sullivan | 03:44 pm | October 06, 2014
Will hospitals be forced to buy HP desktops, laptops and printers from one group and the servers that connect them from another?
By Mike Miliard | 03:32 pm | October 06, 2014
Robert Wachter, MD, explains why analytics enable the best care at the lowest cost.
By Mike Miliard | 12:07 pm | October 06, 2014
Add Facebook to the list of Silicon Valley technology companies looking for ways to make personal health data a new part of their growth strategy. Like Apple and Google, the social network is said to be developing wellness apps, as well as health discussion groups for its 1.3 billion users.
By Erin McCann | 11:55 am | October 06, 2014
Questions continue to be raised about why travel information was not communicated in treating the nation's first Ebola patient. And, more importantly, how to prevent it from happening again.
By Eric Wicklund | 11:18 am | October 06, 2014
A major healthcare investment firm says the insurance industry will have to abandon its 50-year-old business plan and embrace mHealth, among other changes, to survive.
By Mike Miliard | 05:28 pm | October 03, 2014
When he speaks at Healthcare IT News' Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum next month in Boston, Robert Wachter, MD, will have some provocative things to say about quality and safety -- and the responsibility physicians have to embrace the promise of business and clinical intelligence.
By Frank Irving | 03:51 pm | October 03, 2014
Judy Murphy, RN, director of the Office of Clinical Quality and Safety at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, is the latest in a long drumbeat of departures from the agency. Murphy will leave ONC to become chief nursing officer at IBM Healthcare Global Business Services.
By Frank Irving | 03:16 pm | October 03, 2014
Judy Murphy is leaving the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT for a job at IBM.