Financing Health Care
It Won’t Be Easy By Kathryn Ruscitto Blog: Advancing Excellence Twitter: @krusct The New York Times has another lead story this morning on the cost…
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Health IT Business News – Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Today’s Business News GE announced it has agreed to acquire API Healthcare, a healthcare workforce management software and analytics solutions provider, headquartered in Hartford, WI. The…
Online Education and Certification Resource Releases New PQRS Course
Online Course Helps Providers Understand Reporting Requirements of PQRS 4Medapproved, the leading provider of online education and certification resources on topics relating to healthcare information…
HIE Rundown – 1/16/14
Health Information Exchange News & Announcements Health Information Exchange (HIE) is happening every minute of every day. Your personal health information is moving and being…
National Health Spending Growth Remains Low for 4th Consecutive Year
CMS Office of the Actuary Report The following is communication from CMS. Overall national health expenditures grew at an annual rate of 3.7 percent in 2012,…
Massachusetts’ Governor Patrick Launches Next Phase of Mass HIway
Mass HIway Will Help Reduce Costs and Save Lives BOSTON – Wednesday, January 8, 2014 – Governor Deval Patrick launched the next phase of the…
ACA Changes the Healthcare Marketplace and the Economics Driving It
Flawed Accounting By Barry Chaiken, MD, MPH, CMIO, Infor Follow him @bchaiken For more than a half century, the healthcare industry applied a flawed business…
Annual Reflections at the End of 2013
Another Gratifying Year William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor It has become a tradition for this blog for my last posting of…
Health IT Business News – Thursday, January 9, 2014
Today’s Business News No matter what the job setting, at some point, every health information technology professional ponders, “Am I really being paid what I…