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Vanderbilt University Medical Center, one of the pioneers in building its own software systems, announced it would switch to an Epic electronic health record in November 2017, having weighed the merits of both Epic and Cerner, the hospital announced on Friday.
The group ColoradoCareYES gathered enough signatures -- more than 100,000 -- to put a single-payer health system on the ballot next fall.
Thursday's announcement by Kaiser Permanente that it plans to open its own medical school in Southern California has attracted a lot of attention in the healthcare community.
Healthcare organizations are bulking up their privacy protections with firewalls, encryption, data loss prevention software and more, but the much lower-tech visual hacking threat is still a concern, according to a new 3M educational campaign.
One in six Massachusetts residents avoided obtaining health coverage in 2015 due to the cost, according to a survey from the state's Center for Health Information and Analysis.
The data released Friday in the "Home Health Agency Utilization and Payment Public Use File" contains information on utilization, payments, and submitted charges organized by provider, state and home health resource group.
The hospital-acquired infections prevention market in the United States is expected to grow 7 percent annually until 2020, according to a new report by by research-based management consulting firm Pharmaion, driven by increases in infections and chronic diseases among the aging population.
Perched on an exam table at the doctor's office watching the clinician type details about their medical problems into their file, what patient hasn't wondered exactly what the doctor is writing? As many as 50 million patients may have a chance to find out in the next few years, following the announcement this week of $10 million in new grants to expand the OpenNotes project, which works with medical providers to expand patient access to clinician notes.
Thirty-two hospitals in 15 states, including the Cleveland Clinic and hospitals associated with the Community Health Systems, Tenet and Banner Health, are on the hook for $28 million to settle allegations they submitted false claims for inpatient care to perform minimally-invasive spinal surgery that could have been done in a less expensive outpatient setting, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
The House on Friday approved a $1.1 trillion spending bill that, with a tax package approved last week, includes changes to ObamaCare including another delay in the implementation of the Cadillac tax on high cost employer health plans.