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Sep 09 2011

InformationWeek

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Best practice data is available for most healthcare decisions, but health IT teams are doing a lousy job of getting it to doctors, says Ascension Health informatics chief.

Sep 09 2011

New York Times

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Care transitions — those times when someone enters a hospital, transfers from one department to another, gets discharged to a rehabilitation center or goes home — are risky times.

Sep 09 2011

Washington Post

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Obama would pay for jobs plan with spending cuts, tax hikes and trimming Medicare and Medicaid

Sep 09 2011

2011 Potpourri XXXV

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Fall looms and brings the football season. Our Potpourri scores with nutritious bites of health information, including getting more genetic data into medical records, giving doctors price lists, the value…

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Sep 08 2011

govhealthit.com

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ONC launches project to query EHRs for population health data

Sep 08 2011

Bloomberg

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Weight Watchers Helps Obese Lose More Than Doctors’ Treatment in Study

Sep 08 2011

InformationWeek

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HIE Vendor Market Poised For Shakeup: Among dozens of vendors selling technology products and services to health information exchanges, no clear player dominates, study says.

Sep 08 2011

propublica.org

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Drug companies have long kept secret details of the payments they make to doctors and other health professionals for promoting their drugs. But 12 companies have begun publicizing the information

Sep 08 2011

HealthLeaders Media

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Marketers are always looking for ways to boost patient engagement. With many audiences trained to block out traditional healthcare marketing messages it’s time to turn up the creativity.

Sep 08 2011

PR Newswire

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TeamHealth Grows Anesthesia Division with Acquisition of Anesthesia Services, Inc.

Sep 08 2011

New York Times

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Doctors are paid higher fees in the United States than in several other countries, and this is a major factor in the nation’s higher overall cost of health care

Sep 08 2011

Washington Post

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91 people in eight cities who are accused of bilking the Medicare system out of nearly $300 million

Sep 08 2011

Nextgov.com

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Protected medical information, including patient medical records, is alarmingly susceptible to security breaches, two new reports suggest.

Sep 08 2011

Nextgov.com

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Forty rural health networks nationwide will receive $11.9 million in federal funding to help pay for the acquisition of health information technology and electronic health records

Sep 08 2011

Research on Health Risk Assessments

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An Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality technology assessment examines health risk assessment tools, finding that while there are a number of studies, the overall quality is poor and the…

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