Lloyd B. Minor, the dead of Stanford University School of Medicine, equated problems harnessing the positives of EHR with the microscope. It took 70 years for that game-changing tool to lead to scientific breakthroughs—a delay that might have to do as much with the user as the instrument itself.

New research published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology suggests the 2008 CMS’ policy, Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS), which penalizes hospitals for hospital-associated conditions (HAC) present at the time of the patients’ admission to the hospital has had a minimal impact on hospital reimbursement.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is about to undergo a massive, $16 billion revamp of its electronic health record (EHR) system. A month after a $10 million deal with Cerner was finalized, the Government Accounting Office (GAO) released a report that found the VA spent $3 billion on EHR support between 2015 and 2017.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is about to undergo a massive, $16 billion revamp of its electronic health record (EHR) system. A month after a $10 million deal with Cerner was finalized, the Government Accounting Office (GAO) released a report that found the VA spent $3 billion on EHR support between 2015 and 2017.

On Friday, a federal judge denied Kentucky’s move to impose work requirements on some Medicaid recipients. Now, one Kentucky official claims benefits will be cut if this policy isn't fixed and implemented quickly.

Kentucky was set to become the first state in the U.S. to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients. But a federal judge blocked the move, which was set to take effect on Sunday—claiming the Trump administration didn’t properly consider the policy’s effect on the program’s intended aim to provide medical coverage to at-risk populations.

Pediatric cancer rates are highest in the Northeast U.S. and lowest in the South, according to a new report from the CDC, while leukemia is more prevalent in the West. But, the researchers noted, childhood cancer remains rare enough that such variables are more significant to care providers than the public.

Federal prosecutors in California announced charges against nine individuals—including orthopedic surgeons, chiropractors and a C-suite executive—for allegedly running a 15-year scheme that submitted nearly $1 billion in fraudulent health insurance claims to the federal government, California and private insurers.

Nearly two-thirds of physicians know another doctor who has tried or died by suicide, according to a Medscape poll published last month. The survey found 65 percent of physicians, 41 percent of nurses and 38 percent of medical students knew a physician who tried or died by suicide.

GE Healthcare’s parent company has had a rough run lately. The corporate giant has lost half its value in 2017—and another 25 percent this year. GE was also delisted from the Dow Jones Industrial Average. But Monday’s news that GE would spin off its healthcare division into a separate company could provide freedom for the standalone.