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By Anthony Brino | 11:13 am | November 11, 2013
American public health leaders are challenging the public and private sector to focus on both the population and the person, from regional planning to cancer therapy.
By Kaiser Health News | 11:09 am | November 11, 2013
Connecticut, like most states with their own Obamacare enrollment site, is faring well. Now Connecticut's governor is wondering why the feds couldn't do the same.
By Anthony Brino | 10:41 am | November 11, 2013
More than half of U.S. hospitals are currently connected to a regional, state or private health information exchange, with a majority of them citing this as their biggest challenge yet.
By Lloyd McCoy | 09:18 am | November 11, 2013
The unit overseeing health data exchange between Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs appears to be dormant, not a good sign for the iEHR dream.
By Fiona Jensen | 01:26 pm | November 08, 2013
Among this week's people on the move, Cleveland Clinic named a new executive director, and Interactive Health welcomed a new chief operating officer.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:50 am | November 08, 2013
The Electronic Health Record Association, which represents 40 EHR developer companies whose products are in use at a majority of hospitals and physician practices today, tells the FDA that EHR systems should remain unregulated by the agency.
By Erin McCann | 11:42 am | November 07, 2013
If more office-based docs got on board with health information technology solutions, they'd be able to see more patients while also lightening their overall workload, according to the findings of a new Johns Hopkins study.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:40 am | November 07, 2013
Cleveland Clinic Innovations has created a spin-off company to develop and commercialize cancer diagnostics and screening tests, the most recent of 66 companies created under the Cleveland Clinic Innovations, the commercialization arm of Cleveland Clinic.
By Anthony Brino | 11:06 am | November 07, 2013
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CIO, Tony Trenkle, is stepping down this month amid the problematic rollout of the Healthcare.gov website, CMS announced in an email to the staff.
By Kaiser Health News | 11:20 am | November 06, 2013
Judge not, that ye be not judged. Irked by the growing number of report cards assessing the quality of hospitals, a New York state hospital association has taken this biblical admonition to heart by putting out a report card grading the quality of hospital graders. Five of the 10 report cards that were evaluated were given low marks.