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HP lands comprehensive services contract with Nevada Medicaid

HP Enterprise Services has signed a five-year, $176 million services agreement with the Nevada Division of Health Care Financing and Policy to provide IT and management support to the state's

Newspaper investigation serves as catalyst for stepped up hospital reporting requirements

Nevada hospitals will no longer be able to get away with under-reporting or mis-reporting sentinel event data. Nevada lawmakers unanimously approved two draft bills Tuesday to require state hospitals

Pain docs push for standardization of state drug tracking systems

Though 41 states have enacted legislation to create databases to combat "pharm-aholics" and other regular seekers of addictive prescription drugs, there still are some major holes in plans to set up

NV practices large and small embrace EMRs for cost savings, quality gains

We get practically giddy over here at Fierce whenever someone in the mainstream media truly understands and puts together a truthful, coherent story about EMRs. Thus, kudos are in order for Marshall

SPOTLIGHT: Vegas hep C outbreak spurs Nevada laws

Last year, two clinics were forced to notify more than 50,000 patients that they may have been exposed to blood-borne diseases by unsafe injection practices. Now, in an effort to prevent such

NV hospital hired clinics accused of lax practices

An area medical center is coming under fire to defend a $1 million contract with a group of clinics now under investigation for potentially widespread infection control failures. The contract has