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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...

Sure, hospitals have been taking it on the chin financially over the last several months. They've been forced to respond in lots of ways, including laying off workers, instituting hiring freezes,... 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...

A new study by Arizona State University research has concluded that hospitals on the East Coast of the U.S. have the highest rate of adoption for critical health IT systems and applications. The... Read more...

A pending rule from the DEA that would impose tight controls on e-prescribing of controlled substances has been slammed by a handful of industry groups as being too restrictive and, in some cases,... Read more...

> The CEO of the American Hospital Association is calling for a new model for creating and developing federal health IT standards. Read more...

While hospitals across the U.S. are fleshing out their IT infrastructure, particularly given the mounting pressure from health reformers, it looks like Pennsylvania health organizations may have an... 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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For a while now, the voluntary hospital industry has been nervously waiting for the IRS to offer some guidance on whether they can legally give EMRs or other IT equipment to physicians--and have gotten no response. Now, hospital executives are starting to get antsy. Last week the American Hospital Association issued yet another request urging the IRS to offer clear guidance on whether health IT donations to doctors are OK, acceptable some of the time or unacceptable.

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