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Hospital Hopes iPhone App Will Improve Patient Satisfaction, Efficiency
Shark Attack Victim Photos Put Hospital Employees in Hot Water
HHS Offers $100M to Improve Children's Health IT
Medical scan makers to install radiation controls
Radiation bills raise question of supervision
February 25, 2010
Healthcare Summit Dilemma: How Do You Lower Health Costs?
Radiation errors reported in Missouri
February 23, 2010
More Americans using high-tech medicine, CDC finds
More than 75,000 computer systems hacked in one of largest cyber attacks, security firm says
White House calls for new health IT task force
32 Large Patient Data Breaches Since September, Says OCR
iPhone app tells wait time in ER at the Hospital of Central Connecticut
Millions coming to Washington, DC, for medical-records database plan
February 22, 2010
Will the Feds Delay HITECH Business Associate Provisions?
Obama Leaves Public Option Out of Reform Plan
Federal Committee Recommends Changes to EHR Meaningful Use Rule
Massachusetts General Hospital death spurs review of patient monitors
February 19, 2010
HITECH Survey: Providers Remain Concerned About HIPAA Breach Notifications
February 18, 2010
Patient-Friendly ER Lobby Designed to Reduce Stress
St. Louis company strikes deal with Poland for isotope that is crucial to medical tests
Report: Technology, medical tests changing the face of healthcare
Hybrid heart procedures are gaining ground
February 17, 2010
New source of an isotope in medicine is found
A doctor's problem with electronic records
February 16, 2010
Top HIPAA Lessons for Hospital Leaders
FCC to promote mobile health apps in broadband plan
What Meaningful Use Means For You Now
FDA Gives Hospitals More Time to Transition from Steris SS1
Doctor-patient divide on mammograms
South Florida doctors to get $8.5 million for tech upgrade
February 15, 2010
HIPAA Questions to Ask as HITECH Date Nears
Results unproven, robotic surgery wins converts
Vanderbilt uses DNA to personalize medicine
February 12, 2010
White House Earmarks Nearly $1B for Healthcare IT, Future Jobs
Breach Prevention is Critical as HIPAA Compliance Worlds Collide
New Jersey Launches Web Portal to Reduce Health Plan Paperwork
Obama administration makes grants for health IT
February 11, 2010
Quality Systems Inc. Acquires Opus Healthcare Solutions
Comparative-effectiveness: A simple healthcare fix fizzles out
New Jersey added to trial program to streamline health insurance paperwork
February 10, 2010
BCBS of TN Hard Drive Theft Threatens 521K Customers
Four Ways to Properly Store Vaccines
February 9, 2010
FDA Calls for Reducing Unnecessary Radiation Exposure from Three Devices
Five healthcare IT decisions to avoid
Launching HITECH
Stories of success: Health IT's impact on national safety goals and priorities
Political earthquakes, healthcare reform and health IT
CT Hospital was Prepared for Power Plant Explosion
Millions of H1N1 Doses Will Expire on Feb. 15
In Haiti, practicing medicine from afar
February 8, 2010
Three Tips to Help Ensure Effective EHR Implementation
10 Ways to Improve Handoffs in Your Hospital
MassGeneral Program Brings Remote Doctor to the Bedside 24/7
HIPAA Harm Threshold Works, Say Providers
February 5, 2010
Expectant Moms, The White House is Calling
University of Miami gets $14.8 million to build brain imaging annex
February 4, 2010
OCR Leader: No HIPAA Enforcement Schedule Yet
Many Small Practice Physicians Putting off Meaningful Use Guidelines
Business Associates Can Pay Directly for Breaches
February 3, 2010
IBM Continues Expansion into Health IT
Five Stumbling Blocks Hinder HIPAA Compliance
February 2, 2010
Practicing on patients, real and otherwise
Experts raise concerns about EHR vendors' long-term viability
Doctors tout NanoKnife for easy tumor removal
February 1, 2010
Obama's Proposed Budget: More Money for Health IT, Medicare, Medicaid, NIH
Meaningful Use Calls for Meaningful Risk Analysis
NIH will start keeping track of patients' radiation exposure