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Sunday, Feb. 248:00 AM - Get tips from a top-rated HiMSS instructor on securing information systems from this all-day Information Security Workshop run by Tom Walsh, CHS, CISSP. Monday, Feb. 2510:00 Read more...

This week California became one of several states taking a forceful public stand promoting health data exchange. Like several states, California is responding to HHS secretary Michael Leavitt's call for national HIT …

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Jumping on board an initiative kicked off by HHS secretary Michael Leavitt, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed an order pushing healthcare providers to adopt more health information technology and make pricing and quality information more readily available. The state, which has set a goal of 100 percent electronic data exchange within 10 years, will now push for HIT by supporting organizations that use e-prescribing and other health data exchange technologies.

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The Louisiana Recovery Authority´s (LRA) Health Care Committee received a midterm progress report from the Louisiana Health Care Redesign Collaborative as part of the post-Katrina effort to develop, and oversee the implementation of, a practical blueprint for an evidence-based, quality-driven health care system for Louisiana. The blueprint will serve as a guide to health care policy in Louisiana and for the recovery and rebuilding of health care in the hurricane-affected areas of …

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