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Despite evidence indicating doctors are doing worse this year compared to last, job satisfaction has increased, with doctors citing new technology as a contributing factor, according to a new survey.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey that indicates more than half of physicians use electronic health records represents a significant IT milestone, but the news doesn’t come as a surprise to those in the medical community.
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has adopted model language designed to provide guidance to individual states establishing health insurance exchanges as required under health reform.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be outfitted with new fraud-fighting analytic tools designed to prevent wasteful and fraudulent payments in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Grants focused on smart use of IT.
Accenture and Plexis have launched a solution designed to optimize the efficiency, cost and reliability of Medicaid Management Information Systems. Accenture’s Public Health Platform introduces a new MMIS option designed to enable states to better adapt to the evolving Medicaid landscape.
Meaningful use criteria gets the ball rolling.
The 112th Congress met for the first time on January 5, with Republicans making their first order of business a repeal of the healthcare reform law. Experts say if that were to happen, it should not have a major effect on health IT.
A panel of healthcare experts representing privacy, trends, technology, regulatory, data breach and governance have identified the top seven trends in healthcare information privacy for 2011.
New research from the National Quality Forum supports the use of effective IT tools and promotes clinical decision support.