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By Modern Healthcare | November 28, 2016 (Story updated at 11:04 a.m. ET) U.S. Rep. Tom Price was nominated to be HHS secretary by President-elect Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the decision. Seema Verma, who helped craft Indiana’s conservative Medicaid…
By Tamara Rosin for Becker’s Hospital Review Preventing the rate of hospital closures from rising will require hospitals to focus on improving efficiency and continuing to seek opportunities to consolidate, Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove, MD, told Fox Business Network. “Hospital…
Article by Mary Butler. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on November 21, 2016 and is republished here with permission. If it seems like news reports about hacking and ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations are on an…
By Mark Hagland for Healthcare Informatics As of Monday morning, advance registration at RSNA 2016 was 48,888—similar to last year’s advance total Attendance at the annual conference of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), which had been dipping in…
By David DiSalvo for Forbes Does internet gaming have the makings of a debilitating addiction like gambling? Most likely not, according to the biggest study to date seeking a link between internet gaming and addictive behavior. I doubt it’s exactly what the originators of the…
By Heather Punke for Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality Out of the 2,633 hospitals that received a Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade this fall, 20 received a failing grade, up from the 15 that earned an F in the spring.…
Article by Mary Butler. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on November 1, 2016 and is republished here with permission. Attending the 2016 AHIMA Annual Convention and Exhibit in Baltimore, MD had its pros and cons. The pros:…
By Darius Tahir for POLITICO Electronic health record companies are obstructing efforts by specialty societies to gather data that are crucial to the Obama administration’s goal of improving health care quality, leaders of the physician groups tell POLITICO. The data…
By Arun Mirchandani for For The Record There has been a lot of talk recently about secure texting for medication and other types of medical orders. In the past several months, The Joint Commission announced that it was lifting—and then decided…
CONCORD, OH – OCTOBER 13, 2016 In the recently published study, “Computer-Assisted Coding 2016, Who is Delivering Promised Value in ICD-10” by KLAS Research, Dolbey customers reported the fastest ICD-10 speed-to-value. With the implementation of ICD-10, most healthcare organizations experienced…