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Ten states are being awarded over $100 million in federal grant funds that will be used on healthcare IT to improve care quality and delivery systems for children enrolled in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
Hospital-acquired infections killed 48,000 people and added $8.1 million to healthcare costs in 2006 alone, according to a study published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is taking action to beef up healthcare IT cybersecurity by appointing a new chief privacy officer and offering a new contract to study cybersecurity.
Electronic healthcare record adoption has increased by 3.2 percent in physician offices since February 2009, according to a new survey.
The Health and Human Services Department plans to survey 500 Medicare beneficiaries this fall about difficulties and benefits they may have experienced using personal health record (PHR) systems.
Administrators say they know 'very little' about why Medicare beneficiaries use personal health record systems.
Paul Pitcher, analyst with Orem, Utah-based research firm KLAS, ventures that not much seems to have changed in the single sign-on market since KLAS published his report in February 2008.
General Medical History, developed by Clinical Cliffs, is a free iPhone/iPod Touch application that's great for new doctors and medical students, but is hardly adequate for the veteran physician.
Eclipsys, the Atlanta-based health software and services company, has beaten expectations for the fourth quarter of 2009, posting adjusted earnings of 17 cents per share when analysts, on average, had predicted that number to be 12 cents.
With 2010 bringing a heightened focus on healthcare compliance, reform efforts and enforcement, providers should be aware of the legal ramifications that surround these issues, says law expert Stephen W. Bernstein.