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April 2013

Net Medical Xpress Showcases New Telemedicine Technology at Tradeshow (04/15/2013)

Stolen laptop impacts 13K home health patients (04/15/2013)

ONC's budget includes new tax on IT vendors (04/15/2013)

WEDI survey indicates slow ICD-10 progress (04/15/2013)

URAC seeks comments on its ACO accreditation (04/15/2013)

Study: Physicians welcome patient self-tracking (04/11/2013)

Five things to know about health IT this week (04/11/2013)

Medical Informatics: Predictive modeling enables ACO transition (04/11/2013)

ONC's requested 2014 budget to build on existing momentum (04/11/2013)

Life Technologies Launches New Bioinformatics Software Platform Enabling Bio-Design and Gene Synthesis from Next Generation Sequencing Data (04/11/2013)

iMedicor Selected By iHealth Trust To Provide Secure Communications Services To Houston And Gulf Coast Region (04/11/2013)

Health Coalition Supports Legislation to Curb Medical Lawsuit Abuse (04/11/2013)

Medical Informatics: Apps, not data warehouses, are wave of future (04/11/2013)

Medical Informatics: Driving data analytics (04/11/2013)

HHS releases 2014 budget (04/10/2013)

Health Affairs brings global perspective to US healthcare reform (04/10/2013)

BICSI releases newest standard (04/10/2013)

Cambridge College School of Management Program Hosts a Panel Discussion On Trends and Opportunities In Health Information Technology (04/10/2013)

AmeriHealth New Jersey and Cooper University Health Care partner to transform health care in New Jersey (04/10/2013)

CMS offers MU audit guidance (04/10/2013)

Medical Informatics: MAVERIC project puts veteran DNA data into researchers’ hands (04/10/2013)

Efforts to accelerate exchange (04/10/2013)

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Roundtable: Building a National Data Infrastructure to Advance Comparative Effectiveness Research (04/10/2013)

TEDMED 2013 Announces Final Speaker Lineup Of 60+ Experts Who Will Inspire Audiences Around The Globe To Think Differently About Medicine, Healthcare And Technology (04/10/2013)

CMS announces grant funding to support Navigators (04/10/2013)

Cloud EHR Provider Royal Solutions Group Deploys Royal Letters™ Automated Letter, Email, Report and Notification Service at Scottsdale Medical Imaging (04/10/2013)

Billing error impacts 700 Texas Tech patients (04/09/2013)

Mass General launches telehealth pilot (04/09/2013)

B. Braun Launches New Patient Website (04/09/2013)

Proposed rule extends EHR safe harbor provision (04/09/2013)

Medical Informatics: Patient engagement, integrated systems are formula for better care (04/09/2013)

Healthgrades 2013 Patient Safety Excellence Report Demonstrates Variation in Patient Safety Outcomes and the Importance of Being an Informed Consumer (04/09/2013)

BBK Worldwide Expands Mobile Strategy for Patient Recruitment to Include "In-App" Advertising (04/09/2013)

Core Informatics and OpenEye Scientific Software Forge Partnership (04/09/2013)

CollabNet Announces Agreement With Cardinal Health to Use TeamForge for Software Development (04/09/2013)

Are medical students keeping pace with policy changes? (04/09/2013)

Medical Informatics: Virtual visits save time, money and improve care quality (04/09/2013)

HIT Policy Committee: Privacy and security for query, response discussed (04/08/2013)

Joint Commission issues alert for medical device alarms (04/08/2013)

Vendor creates patient engagement rankings for U.S. hospitals (04/08/2013)

Children's medical records left outside Tenn. hospital (04/08/2013)

Stolen laptop the source of VA breach (04/08/2013)

Florida breach may be due to employee ties to identity theft ring (04/08/2013)

VA study shows patients like online record access (04/08/2013)

Catholic Health Initiatives and Accenture Apply Analytics to Identify Health Risks among Patient Populations (04/08/2013)

CMS updates Stage 2 CQMs (04/08/2013)

Legislator: Exempt pathologists from MU (04/08/2013)

Florida hospital earns HIMSS Stage 7 recognition (04/08/2013)

RI HIE first to exchange behavioral health data (04/08/2013)

5K hospice patients impacted by N.C. breach (04/07/2013)

ONC announces grants to further HIE, interoperability (04/07/2013)

HIT Policy Committee: Certification, legal definition, more discussed for documentation (04/06/2013)

HIT Policy Committee: Exploring 'alternate pathways' for MU (04/06/2013)

HIT Policy Committee: Long-term care needs better standards (04/06/2013)

HIT Policy Committee debates CommonWell Alliance (04/05/2013)

MWHC Invites Public to Mark National Healthcare Decisions Day, April 16 (04/05/2013)

Lifepoint Informatics Healthcare Serves as Sponsor for 2013 Executive War College Conference on Laboratory & Pathology Management (04/05/2013)

Zane Benefits Publishes New Information on Nevada’s Health Insurance Exchange (04/05/2013)

Saint Luke's Health System Ranks Among Highest in Nation in Patient Satisfaction Survey (04/05/2013)

COH Selects Wairever’s Plexina for Automating Order Set Management (04/05/2013)

InSight Telepsychiatry and Diamond Healthcare Corporation Announce Strategic Partnership (04/04/2013)

UHC Member Hospitals Achieve Record Supply Chain Savings of $400 Million in 2012 (04/04/2013)

Weekly roundup: Advances across the board (04/04/2013)

Advocacy org publishes trust framework (04/04/2013)

Grant-Funded Broadband Enabled Health Care Online Course Released For California Nurses (04/04/2013)

90% Don't Know When New Health Insurance Exchanges Open (04/04/2013)

Philly's accelerator DreamIt Health announces first startups to enter its boot camp (04/04/2013)

Nevada Health Care Association Partners with COMS Interactive (04/04/2013)

MedFocusCapital Partners Announces See.Hear.Live.Better! Alliance (04/04/2013)

RIQI's efforts acknowledged by CMS (04/03/2013)

National Cancer Organizations Issue Joint Statement On Devastating Impact Of Sequestration (04/03/2013)

CHOP Collaborates with Pfizer's Centers for Therapeutic Innovation to Speed Pediatric Research & Development (04/03/2013)

CMS: Proposed rule outlines Navigator standards for HIX (04/03/2013)

JAMA: Opportunities and challenges for big data (04/03/2013)

Better documentation processes needed for good data (04/03/2013)

Kaiser under a microscope (04/03/2013)

GS1 Us Celebrates 40 Years Of The Barcode And Adoption Of Global Standards For Conducting Business (04/03/2013)

Ohio's 6th Annual Healthcare Information Technology Day Highlights the Importance of HIT for Ohio Legislators (04/03/2013)

Perceptive Informatics Improves Clinical Trial Management with New Release of Impact® CTMS Solution (04/03/2013)

EHR work continues on all fronts (04/03/2013)

CMS launches chronic care dashboard (04/02/2013)

CMS updates 2014 MU quality measure info (04/02/2013)

Healthrageous Unveils 'Accountable Health' The Missing Piece To Engage Consumers In Their Health And Achieve Accountable Care Goals (04/02/2013)

With MedInformatix Patient Portal, Indiana Eye Practice Sees Increased Traffic Ahead (04/02/2013)

N.C. bill requires providers to disclose costs via state HIE (04/02/2013)

Healthbox Kicks Off Second Boston Accelerator Program with Lead Partner Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (04/02/2013)

HL7 fulfills promise to make intellectual property freely available (04/02/2013)

CajunCodeFest competition highlights patient engagement (04/02/2013)

Honeywell HomMed Announces LifeStream Leaders Advantage Program To Help Providers Better Implement, Market Telehealth Programs (04/02/2013)

Centene Corporation Completes Acquisition Of Specialty Pharmacy Leader AcariaHealth (04/02/2013)

PointRight Analytics Go Mobile (04/02/2013)

GZS Announces Worldwide Release of Hemaglobal™ EHR Patient Registry Solution for Hemophilia and Bleeding Disorders (04/02/2013)

Mobile Network Operators’ Perspective on mHealth Solutions (04/02/2013)

Legislation would lessen regulatory burden for certain providers (04/01/2013)

Tablets deemed acceptable for viewing EEG results (04/01/2013)

PCMH strategies that drive ACOs (04/01/2013)

2013: Implementation Front and Center (04/01/2013)

Population Health or Bust! (04/01/2013)

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