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Medicare agency prepares its systems to register incentive plan participants, verify meaningful use and generate payments to providers.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is partnering with IBM to market UPMC's "smart" hospital rooms nationwide. Created by UPMC three years ago to bring the right patient information to the bedside when it's needed, UPMC has made the room even smarter, UPMC executives say.
Rite Aid Corp. has agreed to pay $1 million to settle potential violations of federal privacy rules when the national pharmacy chain failed to protect sensitive customer information in disposing of prescriptions and pill bottles in store trash containers.
HHS and FTC said pharmacy chain disposed of sensitive information on prescription pill bottles in publicly accessible trash containers.
Food and Drug Administration, Federal Communications Commission sign memo committing to oversight coordination on medical devices.
L.A. Care Health Plan has approved $153,000 in funding for the Western Health Information Network (WHIN) to help connect a minimum of 10 Los Angeles County community clinics to an existing health information exchange network.
The 12-year agreement, representing more than $9.5 billion in annual drug spending, allows Aetna to apply its IT capabilities to delivering point-of-care clinical guidance.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) announced Wednesday that 51 primary care practice sites in the Hudson Valley have been recognized as Level 3 patient-centered medical homes - the highest level achievable.
Barry Chaiken, MD, has long been a staunch champion for health IT, but technology is not enough, he says. Chaiken, chief medical officer of DocsNetwork Ltd., and outgoing HIMSS chairman, issued a call to action Tuesday at iHT2 Summer Health IT Summit in Denver.
For Catholic Health Initiatives, a Denver-based health system with 55 acute care hospitals across the country and no electronic health record system, the challenge of achieving meaningful use will be "keeping the wheels on the wagon, so to speak," says Evon Holladay, vice president, business intelligence.