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Orlando Health among health systems digging into ICD-9 conversion

Salaries jump 30 percent in six years

To forge ahead or hold back – that is the question

Hospitals aren’t taking advantage of the opportunities Facebook creates to better engage patients, build healthcare communities or develop their brands, according to a new study.

Work calls for connecting 500 hospital labs to public health agencies

The comments on Stage 2 meaningful use guidelines are flooding into government offices fast and furious. Understandably, they are fraught with worries – the stakes are high.

Health, technology and other organizational professionals with desires to implement a thriving and successful health information exchange (HIE) should start by remembering the parts of speech they learned in elementary school.

Aneesh Chopra is the Chief Technology Office of the United States, previously served as managing director with the Advisory Board Company, a publicly traded healthcare think tank.

While much has been written about the philosophical underpinnings, goals, governance requirements, organizational models, economic theory and possible benefits of commercial and Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs), relatively little has been said about the technology infrastructure that is required for successful operation of an ACO.