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Among this week's people on the move, CareCloud appoints a new chief financial officer, and Stanford Hospital and Clinics names a new chief information officer.

Before you know it, the ICD-10 go-live date of October 2014 will be here, and for those 55 percent of physicians who have yet to begin implementation, it's looking like a rocky road ahead.

Among this week's people on the move, David Muntz joined GetWellNetwork as CIO.

Among this week's people on the move, Emdeon appointed Neil E. de Crescenzo as president and CEO.

Among this week's people on the move, the ONC named Jacob Reider, MD, as acting national coordinator following the departure of Farzad Mostashari, MD, and David Muntz, MD.

Among this week's people on the move, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives elected three new members to its board of trustees; Mass Technology Leadership Council names CEO of the year, and Voalte gets a new chief operating officer.

PatientPoint announced the appointment of Geeta Nayyar, MD, as CMIO. Nayyar was most recently the CMIO at AT&T. She also served as the principal medical officer at Vangent and as the CMO of APCO Worldwide.

Healthcare organizations are seeing their top talent poached, even after offering big bucks. Many hospitals are "robbing Peter to pay Paul" just to keep their projects staffed up. At a pivotal moment in healthcare, that's putting a damper on progress.

A new MGMA compensation survey shows that CIOs and information systems directors received median pay increases of more than 7 percent since 2011, as demand for health IT services continue to rise.

Eighty-three IT teams were in the running to be named a top hospital in the Healthcare IT News 2013 "Where to Work: BEST Hospital IT Departments" program.