Daily News Archive

• CCHIT Plans Work Group Recruiting for Updating, Expanding Certification Programs

• Drug companies use social networks to recruit patients.

• Alaska Telemedicine Program Off and Running

• HIPAA Violation? Nurses Canned for Patient Cell Phone Photos

• HIMSS Names Stage 6 Hospitals

• Precyse Solutions Adds Executives, Realigns Around Service Lines

• Diagnostic Errors: The New Focus of Patient Safety Experts

• CCHIT Plans Work Group Recruiting for Updating, Expanding Certification Programs

• Alaska Telemedicine Program Off and Running

• HIMSS Names Stage 6 Hospitals

• Free E-Prescribing Service Now Available to San Antonio Physicians

• Medtronic to Voluntarily Disclose Payments to U.S. Physicians

• Patient Knowledge of Health Information Influences Cancer Treatment

• Psychology Organization Applauds HITECH's Privacy Provisions

• CIGNA to Stop Using Ingenix Database

• Diskriter Announces New Director of HIM Rehabilitation Services

• AAPC Offers Price Reductions to Help Members Weather Economic Storm

• HIE Reaches 1 Million E-Prescriptions

• Electronic Network Debuts in Buffalo

• National Panels Release HIT Road Map

• Privacy Group Wants EHR Opt-Out Included in Stimulus Bill

• Siemens Nursing Officer Awarded HIMSS 2008 Nursing Informatics Leadership Award

• Social Media Tapped to Spread Info About Salmonella Outbreak

• CHIME, HIMSS Name 2008 John E. Gall, Jr CIO of the Year

• 2009 TEPR Awards Honorees Announced

• AHIOS Announces Code of Ethics and Standards

• Survey Measures Economic Stimulus Plan's Effect on EHR Adoption

• 'Positive' Studies More Likely to Make It Into Medical Journals

• Consumer Watchdog Urges Congress to Adopt Privacy Protections in Economic Stimulus Bill

• Interconnectivity Key to President Obama's Goal of Computerizing Medical Records Within Five Years, EMR Firm Says

• HIT Associated With Better Outcomes, Lower Costs

• AHA Studies Economy's Effect on HIT Projects

• Connected for Health Report: EMRs Not a Cure-All

• Obama Administration Gets White Paper on Healthcare Spending

• 2009 TEPR Awards Finalists Announced

• HHS Issues Final ICD-10 Code Sets and Updated Electronic Transaction Standards Rules

• CMS PHR Pilot Program Takes Flight in Arizona, Utah

• Privacy Group Calls for Safeguards in HIT Stimulus Package

• CCHIT Invites Public Comment on HIT Road Map

• Senators Stabenow and Snowe Push Legislation to Improve Healthcare, Reduce Cost

• EHNAC Releases New Criteria for Five Accreditation Programs

• CHIME Praises Obama Healthcare Plan

• National eHealth Collaborative Launched

• Study Finds Failure to Include Nurses in Process of Admitting Errors to Patients, Families