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Three organizations are receiving grants of up to $1 million apiece to help expand the nation’s network of telehealth resource centers.
With the conversion to ICD-10 disease and treatment coding expected by the government-set deadline of Oct. 1 2013, and all that entails, a new career path is emerging in healthcare – the chief knowledge officer, or CKO.
Bill Bernstein, chairman of the healthcare division at law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, explains how CMS has laid the foundation for real reform of the care delivery system.
Google and Yahoo were cited by 46 percent of physicians in a recent survey as a frequent source of information used to diagnose, treat and care for patients.
The agencies are harnessing health technologies to improve doctor-patient interaction by reaching patients – and their health problems – right where they reside. Here’s how they plan to transform that from buzzword into better care.
A bill introduced last week seeks to provide greater legal protection to Medicare and Medicaid providers that use electronic health records.
NextGen vice president of EDI Ana Croxton explains software vendors' role in the HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10 conversions, and reveals intentions to create a "sandbox" for ICD-10 codes.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded three-year grants totaling $4.5 million to support research in three centers that will focus on improving clinical preventive services and practices such as screening, counseling and use of preventive medications for patients.
Steven Bennett, vice president of recruitment firm Kirby Partners, got right to the point. "I do love your unhappy employees," he told an audience of about 100 CIOs Thursday at the annual fall forum of the College of Health Information Management Executives. "If it’s not me who calls, it’ll be some other recruiter."
Pay-for-performance (P4P) does not result in providers cherry-picking patients, nor does it cause a negative impact on patient outcomes, according to a new study.