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According to a senior policy advisor for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), this year's top Democrat healthcare agenda includes "major" expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Pr...
A coordinated effort is under way in Florida to move more physicians to use electronic prescribing. The initiative, called ePrescribe Florida, followed a new tack in...
The nation's federal healthcare IT czar, Robert Kolodner, MD, said today that the government's entire focus for healthcare IT advancement is to improve care. Kolodner, pro...
Things aren't looking any better for the United States healthcare system since the last time it was compared with those of other industrialized nations. An update to an ongoi...
Pay-for-performance programs may be ineffective in motivating physician quality improvement because they're too generic and stingy. A new study published in th...
Despite recent survey findings that show 80 percent of the 24 million seniors enrolled in Medicare Part D are satisfied with the program, the Senate Finance Committee has concerns that vulnerable low-...
Benefitfocus of Charleston, S.C. has selected 2007 Data Warehouse software from York, Pa.-based ProfitBase to further enhance the company's Business Intelligence prog...
Donations of information technology and supporting services to not-for-profit healthcare providers will not be seen as kickbacks that could jeopardize providers' not-for-profit status, a memorandum is...
Even with a contingency plan in place to give the healthcare industry time to implement national provider identifiers, the federal government is keeping the pressure on to move the industry to adoptio...
A cooperative effort between federal agencies and state and local enforcement personnel has netted about 40 arrests in south Florida, as a recently launched Medicare "strike force" begins to target fr...