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Health IT regulatory expansion creates new job opportunities
As the healthcare IT regulatory landscape continues to expand, so too, do employment opportunities within the industry, according to Bonnie Siegel, a healthcare IT recruiter with Witt/Kieffer. read more Source: Health IT regulatory expansion creates new job opportunities
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Laptop breach helped Beth Israel’s security during Boston Marathon bombing
In one sense, a stolen laptop that cost Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center more than $500,000 in lawyers and crisis experts paid off in helping the hospital deal with security issues in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing in April. read more Source: Laptop breach helped Beth Israel’s security during Boston Marathon bombing
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Consumers feel pinch as hospitals add telemedicine services
Reimbursements from the Oklahoma Universal Service Fund have soared as hospitals add telemedicine services–and those costs are being passed on to consumers. A companion to the federal Universal… read more Source: Consumers feel pinch as hospitals add telemedicine services
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MGMA wants to delay MU Stage 2 penalties
Vendor readiness concerns about Meaningful Use Stage 2 are at the heart of a request by the Medical Group Management Association for a moratorium on penalties imposed on physicians who have successfully completed Stage 1 requirements. read more Source: MGMA wants to delay MU Stage 2 penalties
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Healthcare Gets Better: Siemens and IBM XIV Storage
Partners for 30 years, Siemens and IBM offer excellent enterprise storage value to healthcare organizations with XIV, with customer-acclaimed performance, re… Video Rating: 0 / 5
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Mobile Technology and Health in Malawi
This story is a series of reports on the impact of mobile technology and health in 10 African countries. Imani Cheers is a 2013 New Media Fellow with the Int…
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Viewpoints: Did Sen. Cruz get early benefits from Canadian health care?; Medicaid expansion won’t work if doctors don’t accept patients
Quite without realizing it, apparently, the location of Cruz’s birth automatically made him a citizen of our socialist (in healthcare, at least) neighbor to the north. Did his mother receive excellent free medical care under Canada’s single-payer healthcare system when her baby was born in Calgary, Alberta, in 1970? Did little Ted, who moved back…
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How to Keep up with Stage 2 Meaningful Use
The 4Medapproved Learning Lunch featuring Joy Rios, industry expert in Meaningful Use discusses the key challenges facing eligible providers to attain and ma… Achieving Meaningful Use #7: Record Demographics is easy with Waiting Room Solutions web-based EMR. For more information go to: http://www.waitingroomsolutio… Video Rating: 0 / 5
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USA today probe finds thousands of docs practicing despite misconduct
Also, a study finds that Medicare patients leaving the hospital can’t always remember what was wrong with them and how to follow up. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130822/USA-today-probe-finds-thousands-of-docs-practicing-despite-misconduct.aspx
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Generic, therapeutic drug substitutions can help lower Medicare costs
Therapeutic drug substitutions have the potential to double or even triple annual cost savings compared with savings achieved with generic substitutions, according to O. Kenrik Duru and colleagues from the University of California, Los Angeles. Source: Generic, therapeutic drug substitutions can help lower Medicare costs