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The government's healthcare fraud prevention and enforcement efforts recovered more than $4 billion in taxpayer dollars for the Medicare, Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in 2010, the largest sum ever recovered in a single year, according to findings published in the government's Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program (HCFAC) report.
As hospitals and health systems across the country grapple with achieving meaningful use of electronic medical records, Accenture is the latest to offer a survey on how they are doing. This one is a survey of CIOs from health systems with advanced use of EMRs, and one of the key findings is that most health systems underestimate the time and cost of implementation.
Mobility is a "vital" sign that should be regularly checked in adults over the age of sixty, and according to two health and exercise science professors at Wake Forest University, the iPad is just the tool for the job.
The charter tenants for Cleveland Medical Mart & Convention Center (Cleveland MMCC) were introduced this past Friday, at a groundbreaking held in front of more than 600 business, civic, community, and political leaders.
WHITIA, a global nonprofit social venture focused on bringing affordable healthcare technologies to medical facilities in limited-resource areas has launched the Healthy Communities Initiative (HCI) help urban and rural community health centers obtain healthcare technologies such as digital X-ray and telemedicine systems.
The Kansas Academy of Family Physicians (KAFP) has launched a patient centered medical home initiative involving eight practices, which will run over the next three years.
CIOs told a federal panel Tuesday about the roadblocks they have faced on their way to achieving meaningful use of electronic health records. Among those who testified before the Implementation Workgroup of the federal Health IT Standards Committee were five members of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference and Exhibition will return to Chicago in 2015 and 2019, President and CEO H. Stephen Lieber announced Monday at a news conference held at McCormick Place.
Mobile technology has become an must-have tool for Walgreens, which bills itself as the nation's largest drugstore chain. The company now offers mobile applications for iPhone, Android and Blackberry, featuring text alerts for more than 1 million subscribers and a function that allows patients to scan the bar code of their prescription to send in refills.
The eHealth Initiative (eHI), whose mission is to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare through IT, has announced the industry leaders nominated for the 2011 Board of Directors. The board will be led by the new Chair William F. Jessee, MD, president and CEO of the Medical Group Management Association, and Vice Chair Micky Tripathi, president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative.