To guide its work in healthcare information technology, the National Quality Forum announced it has formed a new Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC), according to a news release.
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As healthcare financing is about to change dramatically under healthcare reform, healthcare costs continue to rise faster than wages and the Consumer Price Index, according to the annual Milliman Medical Index.
A letter to congressional leaders from HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius lists the first provisions of the health reform law that will be carried out soon, according to a report by AHA News Now.
Issaquah, Wash.-based Spacelabs Healthcare has announced the release of its Ultraview DM3 dual-mode vital signs monitor, which recently received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to a Spacelabs news release.
Several studies presented at Digestive Disease Week examined the adherence to colorectal cancer screening, including colonoscopy and fecal occult blood testing, by ethnicity and recommended screening strategy, according to a DDW news release.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released updated payment files for the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule as well as retroactive provisions for measures extended through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to CMS Transmittal 700.
Twenty-five surgical societies, representing more than 240,000 surgeons and anesthesiologists, sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, urging Congress to enact Medicare physician payment reform to stop scheduled payment cuts to physicians, according to a news release from the…
The Obama administration has issued rules detailing how health insurers must cover to subscribers' children up to the age of 26 under the healthcare reform law, according to a report by the New York Times.
Construction has begun on Red Hills Surgical Center, a joint venture between Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial Hospital and 35 local physicians, according to a report by the Tallahassee Democrat.
While Florida gained more than 27,000 RNs in the past two years, losses to the nurse workforce erased 60 percent of that gain, according to a report by the Jacksonville Business Journal.