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VHA Inc., a healthcare network that serves more than 1,400 not-for-profit hospitals and 28,000 non-acute care providers nationwide, has contracted with athenahealth to offer its physician practices access to the company's full suite of Web-based electronic health record, practice management, and patient communication services.
President Obama is expected on Wednesday to put Donald Berwick, MD, at the helm of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services while Congress is in recess.
A new KLAS report, which examines the health information exchange purchase plans of nearly 100 healthcare organizations, has found that, despite a crowded market, very few companies so far have consistently earned the confidence of providers.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced a $250,000 settlement - the first of its kind in the country - with healthcare insurer Health Net and its affiliates over health data security breaches.
Policy team to base recommendations on three health information exchange models, which drew criticism from some panel members.
Association of Public Health Laboratories wins grant from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to advance exchange of lab data.
Just one year after its launch, officials at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report that 57 percent of patients and 40 percent of referring community physicians are using its Web-based portal for personal health information.
Even before healthcare providers begin to demonstrate the first set of meaningful use requirements next year, federal health IT policymakers are already working on how high to set the bar for providers to qualify for the next round of financial incentive payments in 2013.
The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) has received $2 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide technical assistance to advance electronic exchange of laboratory data.
Risk analysis and disclosure logging will become routine under the next health information privacy regime, experts say.