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Consumer groups and provider representatives are lining up on opposite sides of the debate over whether HHS should soften its standard for notifying patients about privacy breaches. Privacy Read more...

With the Joint Commission and CMS emphasizing the value of computerized physician order entry (CPOE), health IT managers and CIOs have started to plan rollouts. The thing is, they're likely to get Read more...

This year's Most Wired Survey, sponsored annually by the American Hospital Association, has concluded that even with stimulus incentives in place, hospitals are still cutting back on their IT Read more...

In yet another sign that hospitals continue to struggle with the essentials of their business, a new survey has concluded that more than half of U.S. hospitals have cut back or postponed IT projects Read more...

While they're not going away entirely, hospitals are likely to reconsider or postpone IT investments in the wake of the U.S. economy's struggles, according to a new survey by the American Hospital Read more...

While many industry organizations are up in arms, it seems that the American Hospital Association is ready to back the Read more...

The reports detailing federal data security holes keep rolling in, but somehow, nobody seems to be Read more...

Healthcare managers both in and outside of IT got a reprieve last week when CMS agreed to postpone the deadline by which all providers must get and use a national provider identifier number. Hospitals have largely gotten their NPIs, but physicians have not all gotten on board, which has slowed things down considerably, said George Arges, senior director of the health data management group at the American Hospital Association. The AHA had put in a request to CMS explaining the problem and …

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As if rolling out EMRs wasn't challenging enough, ComputerWorld reminds us that in order for EMRs to be useful tools for both hospitals and doctors, hospitals must be able to access doctors' records. Roughly 70 percent of the care patients receive will be administered outside the hospital setting. "If hospitals are automated to the max and their referring physicians are still using paper, all they have is a fairly expensive 30 percent solution," explains John Morrissey, director …

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