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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will begin to make meaningful use incentive payments to eligible physicians and hospitals as early as May 2011, according to a senior CMS official, who detailed steps the agency is taking to start up the incentive program.
HHS makes available $1 million per state to plan insurance exchanges and asks for feedback on what they should look like.
Cegedim, a global technology and services company specializing in the healthcare field, announced on Wednesday its acquisition of Wichita, Kan.-based Pulse Systems, Inc., a leading U.S. healthcare software and services supplier.
Cerner this week announced robust financial results for the second quarter, reporting strong bookings, revenue, earnings and cash flow.
Medicare agency prepares its systems to register incentive plan participants, verify meaningful use and generate payments to providers.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is partnering with IBM to market UPMC's "smart" hospital rooms nationwide. Created by UPMC three years ago to bring the right patient information to the bedside when it's needed, UPMC has made the room even smarter, UPMC executives say.
Rite Aid Corp. has agreed to pay $1 million to settle potential violations of federal privacy rules when the national pharmacy chain failed to protect sensitive customer information in disposing of prescriptions and pill bottles in store trash containers.
HHS and FTC said pharmacy chain disposed of sensitive information on prescription pill bottles in publicly accessible trash containers.
Food and Drug Administration, Federal Communications Commission sign memo committing to oversight coordination on medical devices.
L.A. Care Health Plan has approved $153,000 in funding for the Western Health Information Network (WHIN) to help connect a minimum of 10 Los Angeles County community clinics to an existing health information exchange network.