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NewsSPOTLIGHT ON: Sebelius encouraged by direction of health IT
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is pleased with the efforts to increase implementation of integrated technology in healthcare. in a commentary for Kaiser Health News, she points to the meaningful use Read more...
McKinsey: Well-planned and executed health IT can save $40B annually
If you caught FierceHealthPayer or FierceEMR last week, you would know that four major health insurance companies will offer their own financial incentives to providers to adopt and use EMRs and Read more...
HIMSS boss: Further payment reform needed for HIT program to succeed
Government actuaries are counting on health IT producing some significant savings and quality gains from the federal investment of more than $25 billion for electronic medical records. "My concern is Read more...
Top technology trends for payers
Health insurers will be keeping close watch on genetic testing and electronic medical records in 2010, according to the first of a planned annual series of reports from research organization ECRI Read more...
Doctors, health plans want longer ICD-10 timeline
A growing list of healthcare organizations, including the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), American Medical Association and America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), are raising objections Read more...
UnitedHealthcare breach leads to UC Irvine identity thefts
After months of investigation, it looks like a data breach at health plan UnitedHealthcare Services may be behind a large-scale rash of identity theft taking place at the University of California, Read more...
ALSO NOTED: AHIP promotes health IT for cost-cutting; UCSF creates infosec task force after break-ins; and much more...
> Health insurance trade group America's Health Insurance Plans is pushing the adoption of EMRs and other health IT as a means of cutting healthcare costs. Read more...
CA agency touts PHR use, forms PHR portability group
A California agency issued a report last week that urges state residents to begin using PHRs. The report, which was conducted by the state's Department of Insurance, draws on data coming from a Read more...
California RHIO backed by high-powered employer
As regular readers know, I regularly lambaste RHIOs/HIEs, most of which appear to have little chance of financial survival. However, when it comes to a RHIO that attracts the support of a giant like Read more...
ALSO NOTED: NJ Blue plan sees laptop-based data loss; Democratic coalition stumps for e-prescribing; and much more...
> New Jersey's largest health insurance plan is warning the public that personal information on about 300,000 members was lost when a laptop was stolen. Read more...
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