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washingtonpost.com - Health
- The odd-looking, multicolored contraptions the Fairfax County Health Department sets each summer to lure mosquitoes have recently attracted other nuisances: ...
washingtonpost.com - Health
- NEW YORK -- Looking to entice those hungry for a healthier option, Dunkin' Donuts will begin offering a new slate of better-for-you offerings in August.
The HIT Transition Weblog
- I'll be doing a webinar later this week for Fierce Healthcare, on the topic of building better provider-side patient portals. Those of you who know me for ED...
The Health Care Blog
- The Massachusetts Medical Society will hold a symposium next month called the "Current and Future Uses for Health Data Exchange." Adam Bosworth, former VP of...
California Healthline: Health IT
- On Monday, HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt said a new law that links Medicare payments to physicians' use of electronic prescribing should reduce drug-related err...
Piper Report on Health Care
- The latest issue of the American Journal of Managed Care has several interesting articles on diabetes, demonstrating several opportunities to improve outcome...
Piper Report on Health Care
- Kerry Weems, Secretary Mike Leavitt's deputy chief of staff and President Bush's nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), faces ...
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California Healthline: Health IT
- Researchers from UC-San Diego found that using telemedicine for treatment decisions for stroke patients in rural areas is far more effective than telephone c...
California Healthline: Health IT
- A pilot program at Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center is providing patients with their medical histories on a USB flash drive. If the pilot is successf...
The Informatics Review
- The health informatics community, the various national organizations and professional committees and ONCHIT need to consider making major changes in ...
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California Healthline: Health Plans
- On Monday, Humana reported a Q2 profit of $209.9 million, or $1.24 per share, down 3% from the $216.8 million, or $1.28 per share, it earned in the...
The Health Care Blog
- By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn Health providers want to provide quality care and improve patient satisfaction. Really, they do. It's just that pesky problem of declin...
California Healthline: Medicare
- The government's limited review of Medicare equipment vendors' reimbursement claims is putting millions of dollars at risk, according to a Governme...
The Health Care Blog
- How are Web 2.0 technologies like social networks, wikis and online communities changing the face of the health care industry? How are hospital systems and p...
California Healthline: Health Plans
- The legislation would allow college students who take a medical leave of absence to continue to receive coverage under their parents' health insura...
The Health Care Blog
- By Charlie Baker Charlie Baker is the president and CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc., a nonprofit health plan that covers more than 1 million New Eng...
California Healthline: Medicare
- The rate of complaints about Medicare drug coverage dropped significantly over an 18-month period, and CMS is taking less time to resolve most comp...
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NPR Topics: Health & Science
- Before Bruce Ivins became the focus of the anthrax investigation, suspicion had wrongly fallen on scientist Steven Hatfill. But the evidence against Ivins is...
NPR Topics: Health & Science
- Extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) has cropped up in 49 countries, including the U.S. Its diagnosis is considered to be a virtual death sentence....
NPR Topics: Health & Science
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says annual increases in rates of infection among young, gay black men are the highest in any demographic grou...
TCE Podcast: Newsroom
TCE Podcast: Newsroom
- Sabrina Motley, curator of The California Endowment's Center for Healthy Communities "A Cure for All Diseases" series, and Patrick Polk, professor of World A...
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washingtonpost.com - Tech Policy
- Federal officials said today that bioweapons researcher Bruce E. Ivins was solely responsible for the 2001 anthrax attacks that terrorized the nation and exp...
washingtonpost.com - Tech Policy
- A federal appeals court in California is reviewing a lower court's definition of "interception" in the digital age, in a case that some legal experts say cou...
washingtonpost.com - Tech Policy
- Federal prosecutors charged 11 people yesterday with the theft and sale of more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers from at least nine U.S. retaile...
washingtonpost.com - Tech Policy
- The FBI today will begin to unveil how it exploited the rapidly advancing science of genetics to link a single bioweapons researcher to samples taken from th...
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- Is Medicare really adhering to the NPI-only mantra we've reported on so much over the past several months? Has CMS maintained its strict regulatory stance that NPI -- and only NPI -- is acceptable since the May 23 deadline? Actually, no and no. At least not if you happen to be Medicare, and your...
- While some providers continue to go unpaid by Medicare due to NPI crosswalk problems (this for payments before they went unpaid for congressional budgeting SNAFUs), it seems that other payers are not being so swift to invoke edits that result in non-payment. The Availity clearinghouse has publish...
- We've been publishing intelligence about NPI and Provider Taxonomy for years now, but it's only recently that we've ventured into solving such problems from a data services standpoint. Our April survey of the industry's NPI readiness showed that as many as 57% of the nation?s health plans were e...
- I'll be doing a webinar later this week for Fierce Healthcare, on the topic of building better provider-side patient portals. Those of you who know me for EDI and RHIO issues might be surprised to learn that I have a much longer history in software development and web applications. Back...
- Listing of recent grants for healthcare technology...
- Tired of the ambiguities and outdated constraints of the electronic claim, remittance advice, eligibility and other X12 transactions? Help is on the way. Or at least it's coming into view. The enabling regulation to adopt a new version of those standards has cleared the Department of Health and...
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Moreover Technologies - Healthcare management news - 30 o...
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Moreover Technologies - Healthcare management news - 30 o...
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California Healthline: Privacy
- An additional 59 UCLA Medical Center employees were found to have inappropriately accessed the records of celebrities and other prominent figures, almost dou...
California Healthline: Privacy
- A lawsuit, co-sponsored by Planned Parenthood Affiliates, was filed Friday asking the secretary of state to remove the story of a 15-year-old girl and other ...
California Healthline: Health IT
- House Ways and Means Subcommittee Chair Pete Stark (D-Calif.) said Thursday that he plans to introduce his own health information technology bill. The legisl...
washingtonpost.com - Health
- Q I have a friend who is overweight and seriously lacking in dedication and confidence. I know I can't force him to work out, but I thought if I made him a g...
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Wisconsin Technology Network - RFID
- Most U.S. companies seem to have focused their growth efforts on China and India, but columnist Michael Rosen wants to remind them about Brazil. Rosen was da...
Wisconsin Technology Network - RFID
- The integration of information technology into virtually all aspects of the economy is responsible for much of America's economic growth, and a new study con...
Wisconsin Technology Network - RFID
- Risk management, risk management, risk management. It's become the matra of IT, but not for trivial reasons, according to key presenters during the Fusion 20...
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California Healthline: Health Care Costs
- The Schwarzenegger administration called for exempting workers in the Department of Mental Health and other health, safety and environmental worker...
California Healthline: Business
- The new rules will bar medical experts with significant financial holdings in companies from sitting on FDA advisory committees that review the com...
California Healthline: Business
- A leader for Kaiser Permanente's health plan and hospitals said that "turbulence in the financial markets" weakened Kaiser's financial results for ...
The HIT Transition Weblog
- Listing of recent grants for healthcare technology...
California Healthline: Mental Health Funding
- On Tuesday, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced a new advertising campaign targeted at veterans at risk for suicide. A three-month pilot p...
The HIT Transition Weblog
- Highlights of government and private grants for healthcare technologies for June, 2008
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FCW.com Health IT News
- A state-funded project will help migrant workers take their medical records with them as they travel throughout California.
The Health Care Blog
- By Matthew Holt These few stories may be straws in the wind, or may be little streams rushing to a bigger confluence. You be the judge! AthenaHealth kicks bu...
California Healthline: Insurance and Uninsured
- Faced with long wait times in hospital emergency departments and for appointments with primary care physicians, more Americans are seeking care in walk-in ur...
California Healthline: Insurance and Uninsured
- New research indicates that immigrants accounted for more than a quarter of uninsured people in the U.S. in 2006, up from about 19% in 1994. Almost 60% of un...
California Healthline: Children's Health Coverage
- In a study of 13 of the country's 25 largest restaurant chains, the Center for Science in the Public Interest found that 93% of the kids' items offered excee...
California Healthline: Health Care Reform
- Kansas' largest health insurer announced that it will stop reimbursing hospitals for treatment of preventable errors. Meanwhile, the Massachusetts Legislatu...
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