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washingtonpost.com - Health
- Paper weight. A new study suggests that a piece of paper -- and the willingness to record your eating habits on it -- could be what stands between you and a ...
The Health Care Blog
- By Sarah Arnquist Achieving universal Internet access may happen well before we see universal access to health care -- at least if the advocacy group Interne...
washingtonpost.com - Health
- Replacing the manila folders behind your doctor's reception desk with more efficient and less error-prone electronic health records (EHRs) is a reform endors...
The Health Care Blog
- By David Kibbe The purpose of this post is to help a non-technical audience untangle some of the confusion regarding health data exchange standards, and part...
California Healthline: Health IT
- Research in the New England Journal of Medicine indicates that financial incentives to make the switch to electronic health records are inadequate for many s...
washingtonpost.com - Health
- An integral part of many people's lives, religion defines patterns of worship and socialization, but its impact, if any, on health is unclear. Some studies s...
Piper Report on Health Care
- The latest issue of the American Journal of Managed Care has several interesting articles on diabetes, demonstrating several opportunities to improve outcome...
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The Informatics Review
- This month's webinar will provide an overview of what's happening related to health information exchange. The most recent findings from surveys and r...
The Informatics Review
- Many hospitals, physicians and clinics are having difficulty getting claims paid because of problems related to Provider Taxonomy codes in payers? cr...
California Healthline: Health IT
- The use of wireless tracking systems in hospitals can interfere with medical equipment such as respirators, external pacemakers and kidney dialysis machines,...
California Healthline: Health IT
- Fewer than 25% of California residents reported using physician rating Web sites, and just 2% said they changed physicians based on the information they foun...
California Healthline: Health IT
- The state will accept applications through July 30 for clinics interested in participating in its $30 million initiative to create a statewide telemedicine n...
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California Healthline: Medicare
- Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus said it is possible a measure to stop a more Medicare payment cut could get the support needed to move on to a vote...
California Healthline: Health Plans
- The two insurers have not reached agreements with California regulators to reinstate coverage for members whose policies they rescinded. The state will revi...
California Healthline: Health Plans
- WellPoint's Anthem Blue Cross subsidiary in California was accused of improperly rescinding members' health insurance policies after they submitted costly cl...
The Health Care Blog
- By Charlie Baker Charlie Baker is the president and CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc., a nonprofit health plan that covers more than 1 million New Eng...
California Healthline: Medicare
- Beginning in December, hospices that treat Medicare beneficiaries will have to demonstrate that they are working to improve in areas where they have been fou...
The Health Care Blog
- By Donald Johnson The thousands of physicians and millions of Medicare beneficiaries who think the government should provide ?universal health care? insuranc...
California Healthline: Medicare Drug Benefit
- The lawsuit was filed in federal court in San Francisco and aimed to resolve delays Medicaid beneficiaries encountered when they became eligible for Medicare...
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NPR Topics: Health & Science
- Nearly two months after the earthquake in China, survivors are facing long-term psychological damage. These include post-traumatic stress syndrome, depressio...
NPR Topics: Health & Science
- A former EPA official claims the White House pushed for major deletions in congressional testimony about the health consequences of climate change. We examin...
NPR Topics: Health & Science
- In recent years, athletes' use of performance-enhancing drugs has grown more sophisticated. Sports officials are working hard to keep up with the dopers ahea...
TCE Podcast: Newsroom
TCE Podcast: Newsroom
- Sabrina Motley, curator of The California Endowment's Center for Healthy Communities "A Cure for All Diseases" series, and Patrick Polk, professor of World A...
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- Are you a provider having trouble meeting the Provider Taxonomy requirements of one -- or several -- of your payers? Are you a payer learning the hard way that the Taxonomies you ask for and the ones you actually get are many miles apart? If it's any consolation, you're not alone. But now, ther...
- We were a bit surprised to hear so little about the impact of the new "NPPES must match IRS" policy we reported on two weeks ago and subsequently dug into in relation to the secret crosswalk logic the next day. Letters were supposed to go out right away. Providers should be getting them within a ...
- If you came here looking for free information about your NPI problems, you will find lots of it. Click here for more than 125 articles we've posted on the subject in the last three years. We'd like to help you more directly, if we can. For the past few weeks, we worked on a concept to develop a...
- Yesterday we posted the first public glimpse of the logic that Medicare is using to map incoming claims against providers NPPES (NPI) records to find matching Medicare PECOS (enrollment) records. If you missed it, you can download the spreadsheet here: MatchingRecipesWithCounts05_27_08.xls W...
- Highlights of government and private grants for healthcare technologies for June, 2008
- This is the post where we publish the Medicare NPI Crosswalk. SHHH! Don't tell....
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Moreover Technologies - Healthcare management news - 30 o...
- To view Medical Observer content you must now confirm you are a registered Medical Practitioner via a simple login process. Once you have logged in, you will...
washingtonpost.com - Health
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Hoping to persuade more people to store their medical records online, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and a hodgepodge of health care providers...
California Healthline: Privacy
- Social Security Administration officials have requested that CMS take immediate action to issue beneficiaries new membership cards that do not include their ...
California Healthline: Privacy
- Privacy advocates are commending the Assembly Health Committee for defeating a bill (SB 1096) that would have allowed California pharmacies to share patients...
California Healthline: Privacy
- Sen. Ron Calderon's bill to allow pharmacies to partner with drug makers to send reminder letters to patients about prescription refills was defeated in the ...
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Wisconsin Technology Network - RFID
- Most U.S. companies seem to have focused their growth efforts on China and India, but columnist Michael Rosen wants to remind them about Brazil. Rosen was da...
Wisconsin Technology Network - RFID
- The integration of information technology into virtually all aspects of the economy is responsible for much of America's economic growth, and a new study con...
Wisconsin Technology Network - RFID
- Risk management, risk management, risk management. It's become the matra of IT, but not for trivial reasons, according to key presenters during the Fusion 20...
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California Healthline: Health Care Costs
- WellPoint's Anthem Blue Cross subsidiary in California was accused of improperly rescinding members' health insurance policies after they submitted...
California Healthline: Mental Health Funding
- A $5 million cut to Sacramento County's Department of Mental Health's $210 million budget means that mental health patients will have fewer treatme...
California Healthline: Business
- UnitedHealth Group expects earnings to drop by more than 15% because of a slowdown in the economy, problems with its commercial business and Medica...
California Healthline: Business
- CalPERS was a lead plaintiff in the class-action lawsuit that centered on UnitedHealth's backdating of stock options to former CEO William McGuire....
The HIT Transition Weblog
- Highlights of government and private grants for healthcare technologies for June, 2008
The HIT Transition Weblog
- Back in the day, I used to believe that everyone in this industry was operating with the best of intentions. Increasingly, though, I am starting t...
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The Health Care Blog
- By Maggie Mahar Maggie Mahar is an award winning journalist and author. A frequent contributor to THCB, her work has appeared in the New York Times, Barron's...
California Healthline: Insurance and Uninsured
- The two insurers have not reached agreements with California regulators to reinstate coverage for members whose policies they rescinded. The state will revi...
California Healthline: Insurance and Uninsured
- WellPoint's Anthem Blue Cross subsidiary in California was accused of improperly rescinding members' health insurance policies after they submitted costly cl...
FCW.com Health IT News
- The technology reduces the time spent documenting surgery and other care provided to wounded service members.
California Healthline: Stem Cell Research
- Some stem cell grant applicants are upset that the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine uses recommendations from panels of scientists who sometime...
California Healthline: Children's Health Coverage
- Dentists participating in Medi-Cal's dental program are subject to the same 10% reimbursement cut as other health care providers participating in Medi-Cal. ...
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