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By Benjamin Harris | 12:07 pm | November 26, 2012
From hurricanes to hackers, there's plenty that could go wrong when it comes to data security. With so much riding on unfettered and highly secure access to healthcare information of every kind -- from prescription information to scheduling to payroll -- keeping that data ironclad is more important than ever.
By Erin McCann | 09:47 am | November 21, 2012
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can be hazardous to your company's health, business experts often warn. In the realm of health IT, this maxim is no less true.
By Mary Mosquera | 01:27 pm | November 19, 2012
Radiologists need to evaluate patients earlier and become critical part of care team in patient-centered medical homes and ACOs.
By Mary Mosquera | 09:26 am | November 19, 2012
Deadline delay for health insurance exchange decision may make federal/state partnership model more attractive to states.
By Chip Means | 01:04 am | November 19, 2012
Welcome to the revamped Healthcare IT News. We've given our website a top-to-bottom design upgrade, adding, altering and reorganizing many features along the way. Since we relaunched Healthcare IT News on the Drupal content management system in January 2009, we've learned a lot about the ways our readers use the site.
By Mary Mosquera | 12:14 pm | November 16, 2012
In a second delay in one week, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has extended the deadline for one month for states to not only submit their blueprints for a state-based health insurance exchange, but also to decide if they plan to establish their own exchange.
By Bernie Monegain | 10:52 am | November 15, 2012
Sixty-nine percent of U.S. primary care physicians reported using electronic medical records in 2012 -- up from 46 percent in 2009, according to findings from the 2012 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey. But in the U.S., just 11 percent of physicians said they had referral information available when it was needed.
By Mike Miliard | 11:57 am | November 14, 2012
More and more, health IT is expanding from the clinical into the commercial realm. With patient engagement so crucial to the transformation of care delivery, that's a good thing. But some consumer technologies are better than others.
By Tom Sullivan | 09:11 am | November 14, 2012
Election uncertainty made holding off on a health insurance exchange or Medicaid expansion appealing to conservative Governors. And while many are still resisting, experts in the trenches believe that is on the verge of changing now that President Obama has been reelected.
By Erin McCann | 11:07 am | November 13, 2012
Healthcare IT News analyzed the personal political contributions from the 2011-2012 election cycle of more than 200 top executives at some of the nation's largest hospitals and healthcare systems. The results may surprise you.