Mostashari Defends Vendor Fee Proposal
By Anthony Brino, Government Health IT The U.S. National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, MD, outlined his ideas for a proposed vendor fee at a…
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Healthcare Automation Penetration Creates Need for Updated Continuity of Operations
Commentary By John Tempesco, AtHoc Healthcare, like every other industry in history, has reached the inevitable necessity of automating its operations to bring order to…
Truven Health Analytics Announces Top 15 Health Systems
Top Hospitals Achieve Superior Clinical Outcomes, Fewer Patient Safety Events Truven Health Analytics, formerly the Healthcare business division of Thomson Reuters, has released its 5th…
Six Senators Question Decisions to Date on Path to Health IT Adoption
Senators Seek to Re-examine CMS, ONC Decisions On Health IT Advancement Ahead of today’s Congressional hearing on Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed 2014 budget,…
Should You Take a Second Look at Your Business Associates?
By Ron Sterling Sterling Solutions The HIPAA Omnibus rules significantly affect Business Associate (BA) relationships and will require an adjustment to your Business Associates Agreement…
Health Leaders Launch Big Data Challenge to Transform Healthcare Delivery
National Contest Calls on Health Care Organizations to Identify Roadblocks to Implementing New Care Models Today, the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), Heritage Provider Network (HPN),…
Wedi Survey Shows Healthcare Industry Lagging Behind in ICD-10 Transition
Latest ICD-10 Survey Results Sent to CMS The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is a non-profit organization established in 1991 by Health and Human…
ONC Releases Evaluation of the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program
Brief Explores Differences on How Each Beacon Community Operates The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program funds 17 communities across…
TEDMED – Creating a better future in health and medicine
TEDMED 2013, April 16-19, Washington, DC Who are the speakers and what will they talk about this year? TEDMED is a multi-disciplinary community of innovators…