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By Amy Ellis Nutt and Amy Brittain for The Washington Post The Pentagon is poised within days to award one of the most coveted health information-technology contracts in history — the first phase of a deal that could ultimately be worth more than $10.5 billon over the 18-year life of the contract. This is the…
By Staff at Becker’s Hospital Review Becker’s Healthcare is pleased to release the 2015 edition of “150 great places to work in healthcare.” The 2015 list includes both healthcare providers — medical groups, ambulatory surgery centers, home health providers and hospitals and health systems — along with other types of healthcare-specific companies, such as consulting…
By Hannah Galvin, MD for Healthcare IT News As ICD-10 draws closer, you may feel like you’re stuck in one of the five stages of grief: Denial: “ICD-what? Excuse me, I have patients to see.” Anger: “I don’t have time for ICD-10! The government obviously doesn’t understand the practice of medicine. Why would anyone ever…
By Joseph Goedert for HealthData Management Federal lawmakers are noticing some dark clouds surrounding the electronic health records meaningful use program to prod providers to adopt EHRs. With rising recent struggles in the program, lawmakers may be poised to intervene to push back the program’s third stage. Problems with the current stage are all too…
by Reuters and Associated Press Found on NBCNews.com University of California (UCLA) Health, which runs four hospitals in the university’s campuses, said its computer systems had been hacked and that data on as many as 4.5 million individuals could have been exposed. UCLA Health said on Friday it was working with the FBI and private…