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By Diana Manos | 11:29 am | October 13, 2011
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in September paid out $25 million to 1400 eligible providers and $61 million to 30 dually eligible hospitals under the meaningful use EHR incentive program, according to Robert Anthony from the CMS Office of E-Health Standards and Services.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:13 am | October 13, 2011
Radiologists at Saint Anthony Hospital in Chicago are using a new application that has enabled them to go paperless and increase overall productivity by 20 percent.
By Patty Enrado | 10:27 am | October 13, 2011
Small and resource-poor, the Western Washington Rural Health Care Collaborative (WWRHCC), has shown it is not afraid to tackle - and complete - big projects, such as building an HIE from scratch and developing a telepharmacy system.
By Molly Merrill | 10:53 am | October 11, 2011
A bill signed last week in California aims to greatly increase access to healthcare in rural areas by providing more telehealth services, through more providers, in more care settings.
By Tom Sullivan | 09:47 am | October 11, 2011
LTC Geesey of the Army's MC4 unit discusses early successes, the telemedicine suite currently in development, and how the Army intends to embrace tablets, smartphones, and a hands-free EHR.
By Ilene Yarnoff | 02:52 pm | October 10, 2011
Migration to electronic medical records requires balancing benefits and challenges -- privacy, security, compliance, and fraud.
By Molly Merrill | 10:54 am | October 10, 2011
The iPhone 4S will be available on October 14, and one expert says Apple's new release "certainly boosts its suitability for healthcare applications." But one team of UC Davis researchers didn't need an upgrade to transform their iPhones into medical-quality imaging and chemical detection devices.
By Noam Arzt, PhD, FHIMSS | 02:43 pm | October 07, 2011
Examining the three approaches to ensuring the records public health agencies receive can be linked accurately to their Master Patient Index entries.
By Mike Miliard | 12:14 pm | October 06, 2011
It's hard to overstate the impact Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday at age 56, has had on technology for the past 30 years. In hardware, software, communications and design, Apple's contributions have been incalculable – not least in healthcare.
By Bernie Monegain | 10:49 am | October 06, 2011
Lynne Thomas Gordon, the new CEO of the American Health Information Management Association, spent her first days on the job at the organization's 83rd annual convention in Salt Lake City this week. She spoke with Healthcare IT News about her expectations and the challenges ahead for the 63,000 member organization.