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February 2013

CHIME Certified Healthcare CIO Program goes global (02/28/2013)

Health IT beneficial to behavioral health patients, experts say (02/28/2013)

2013 Reader Survey: Health IT Leaders Speak Up on Priorities, Staffing & Strategies (02/28/2013)

Providers on journey to ICD-10 implementation (02/28/2013)

Five Benefits of ICD-10 (02/27/2013)

Medical Device Integration: A Look Past the EHR (02/27/2013)

The OR Goes Green (02/27/2013)

EHR use doubles colon cancer screening rate (02/27/2013)

Kansas HIE transmits data to state immunization registry (02/27/2013)

VA contracts for disaster relief telehealth (02/27/2013)

NY HIE gets Direct messaging (02/27/2013)

CMIO-CIO Collaboration: FInding the Sweet Spot (02/27/2013)

Growing importance of granular clinical documentation (02/27/2013)

CHIME: Organization, title and more impact CIO salary (02/27/2013)

HIMSS13: Health IT: Right Time. Right Place. It’s On (02/27/2013)

Pushing Strong Decision Support to the Point of Care (02/27/2013)

Battling Breaches Rules, Regulations & Reining in the Players (02/27/2013)

Innovators at HIMSS (02/27/2013)

Study: telehealth has no quality of life impact on patients with chronic conditions (02/27/2013)

Planning For the Road Ahead (02/27/2013)

Small steps to address exchange obstacles (02/27/2013)

CONNECT 4.0 offers new functions (02/26/2013)

AHIMA names COO (02/26/2013)

Social side of PCMH implementation requires study (02/26/2013)

EHNAC launches trusted agent accreditation program (02/26/2013)

Preventionists could be more involved with EHRs (02/26/2013)

Industry skeptical states will be ready for October insurance exchange deadline (02/26/2013)

More EHR research needed to prevent diagnostic errors (02/26/2013)

Online diabetes support program does not yield sustainable results (02/26/2013)

Well-designed IT systems could reduce health disparities (02/25/2013)

Open patient network gets grant (02/25/2013)

Walgreens suffers another data breach (02/25/2013)

Security staff shortages, new tech raising risk of breaches (02/25/2013)

Physicians share success in managing hypertension with HIT (02/25/2013)

HITRUST working group targets cyber threats (02/25/2013)

Ga. hospice loses laptop (02/25/2013)

State innovation initiative provides $300M (02/25/2013)

Meaningful Use, IC-10 conversion top CIO challenges (02/22/2013)

iMedicor nabs two firms, commences exec shake-up (02/21/2013)

Schleyer to biomedical informatics at Regenstrief (02/21/2013)

$600M CMS bump to PCPs previews medical-home model (02/21/2013)

Word of mouth trumps online doc ratings (02/21/2013)

CPOE can avert 17.4M med errors annually, but uptake remains ‘modest’ (02/21/2013)

More metrics needed to show true return on health IT investment (02/20/2013)

N.H. HIE looks for help from close neighbor (02/20/2013)

HIMSS launches Innovation Center in Cleveland to focus on interoperability (02/20/2013)

Poll: Will EHR users have mass exodus to another vendor? (02/19/2013)

What technologies keep hospital C-suite execs up at night? (02/19/2013)

R.I. launches EHR Adoption Program for specialists (02/19/2013)

Microsoft, National Minority Quality Forum launch trial network (02/19/2013)

Viewpoint: Thought leaders banter on information vs. data (02/17/2013)

CHOP earns ACO accreditation (02/17/2013)

Wisconsin breach potentially impacts 43K (02/14/2013)

Weekly roundup: Smorgasbord of developments (02/14/2013)

Evidence-Based Medicine Experts Define the State of the Art (02/14/2013)

Measuring and managing interoperability (02/14/2013)

Fridsma hosts a hangout (02/14/2013)

HHS, Illinois partner on insurance marketplace (02/13/2013)

Bipartisan Policy Center issues report on IT safety plan (02/13/2013)

Survey indicates fewer small breaches but bigger overall impact (02/13/2013)

WEDI extends free membership (02/13/2013)

HIOs remain small with staffing issues (02/13/2013)

CHIME selects Branzell as new president, CEO (02/13/2013)

ACOs get a formal society (02/12/2013)

KLAS ranks vendors' ICD-10 readiness (02/12/2013)

AHRQ seeks fast-track research to help with MU (02/12/2013)

U.S. gov't collected $4.2 billion in healthcare-related fraud charges in 2012 (02/12/2013)

Tavenner renominated to head CMS (02/12/2013)

FHA releases CONNECT 4.0 (02/11/2013)

Hospital group comments on challenges to quality reporting (02/10/2013)

AHRQ director Clancy to step down later this year (02/09/2013)

Castillo to direct quality evals for Joint Commission (02/08/2013)

1.3M patients expected to use telehealth by 2017 (02/08/2013)

AHRQ launches database for kids' EHRs (02/08/2013)

Weekly roundup: CMS has been busy (02/07/2013)

HIMSS offers suggestions to improve ONC IT safety plan (02/07/2013)

AHA commends ONC for patient safety policy, pushes for MPI (02/07/2013)

Missouri health system taps M*Modal for transcription, ICD-10 tech (02/07/2013)

CMS to develop system for long-term care quality reporting (02/06/2013)

Med students receive loans repayment for primary care service (02/06/2013)

eClinicalWorks app for patient-provider communication (02/06/2013)

Round 2 of presidential innovation fellows program opens (02/06/2013)

ONC puts forth patient engagement action plan (02/06/2013)

AHIMA appoints new execs (02/06/2013)

Privacy, Stage 3, breaches lead to busy month (02/06/2013)

Medical home is rolling out with great variability, no proven cost savings (02/06/2013)

Health IT tools can be used to control childhood obesity (02/06/2013)

Shared decision making challenging for PCPs (02/05/2013)

Wis. clinic breach linked to cleaners (02/05/2013)

CHIME supports ONC's IT safety plan (02/05/2013)

AHRQ report highlights patient-centered efforts (02/05/2013)

Viewpoint: Information Versus Data (02/05/2013)

CMS awards contract for HIPAA transaction testing (02/05/2013)

Proposed rule to streamline, save money (02/05/2013)

McKesson sees small dip in net income for Q3 (02/04/2013)

Home monitoring study of cystic fibrosis patients expands (02/04/2013)

Exclusive: Can innovation officers succeed? (02/04/2013)

NEJM editorialists push for more health IT data in critical care decisions (02/03/2013)

CMS releases much-anticipated Sunshine Act (02/03/2013)

HIT Policy Committee creating new ACO workgroup (02/01/2013)

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