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Health and Human Services Department-sponsored website would work in tandem with planned state health insurance exchanges.
Researchers at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford University School of Medicine are saying a new study shows – for the first time – that using a computerized physician order entry system can significantly decrease hospital-wide mortality rates.
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Civil Rights issued a request for information Monday on the HIPAA privacy rule that governs the accounting of disclosures under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
Scripps Health CEO Chris Van Gorder Gorder talks about the IT tools that were useful to his medical team and the information he wished they had access to during three trips to the devastated Haitian capital.
Comments sought on changes to HIPAA requiring providers to account for disclosures of patient data, even for treatment and billing.
Small Rural Hospital Improvement Program (SHIP) drops support for HIPAA; retains IT funding for quality programs.
Who will pay what and where the money will come from remains unclear, says market research firm Input.
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has partnered with Health Dialog, a Boston-based provider of healthcare analytics and decision support, to deliver 24/7 health coaching services to 42,000 Medicare Advantage members in the Volunteer State.
As the first state to meet all federal requirements for HIE strategic and operational planning, the New Mexico Health Information Collaborative (NMHIC), is expanding its network.
A pending Drug Enforcement Agency rule permitting the electronic prescribing of controlled substances is expected to give healthcare providers added incentives to adopt health IT systems once the rule goes into effect on June 1.