Molly Merrill

Diabetes clinic opened by a nurse practitioner after Katrina wins Davies Award.

The Kansas Academy of Family Physicians has launched the Kansas Patient Centered Medical Home Initiative, involving eight practices.

The Gastorf Family Clinic, a small, family-owned clinic in Durant, Okla., was the first in the country to receive a physician-paid incentive check under the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive programs.

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.

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.

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.

Many hospitals and doctors already plan to adopt electronic health records and qualify for federal incentive payments, according to survey data released last month by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology has announced the launch of its new EHR certification program for hospitals.

The iPad looks like a good fit now for doctors, but does the future hold something better?

In one of the first formal studies of social networking websites targeting patients, researchers in the Children's Hospital Boston Informatics Program found that sites targeted at diabetes patients varied in both the quality of information they provide and the safeguards they take for protecting patient privacy.