Here are some statistics on the annual earnings of medical record and health information technicians from across the United States, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook: 2008-09 Edition.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released guidance for securing health information by rendering health information unusable, unreadable or indecipherable to unauthorized individuals, according to an HHS news release.

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A study by Motorola has found that more than 80 percent of global information technology decision makers within the healthcare industry reported that mobile technologies were more important to their organizations today than they were in 2008, according to a…

The Academy of Professional Coders has announced a comprehensive, five-year ICD-10 training plan, which is intended to guide providers, payors and coders through the ICD-10 implementation process, according to an AAPC news release.

Approximately 1.5 percent of hospitals have comprehensive electronic health record systems in place in all clinical units, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

A new Web site, www.pa-hospital-search.com, will allow consumers to make more informed decisions when choosing a hospital, according to a news release by Anapol, Schwartz, Weiss, Cohan, Feldman & Smalley, P.C., the law firm that compiled the data.

Somerset's Health Care Team has published informative service sheets offering legal, operational and IT guidance addressing the impact of the recent HITECH Act on hospitals and physicians' groups.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota introduced Care Comparison, a new online tool that customers can use to estimate the total treatment cost of dozens of common elective procedures, according to a BCBS news release.

Kaiser Permanente will cut 860 information technology jobs nationwide due to an agreement the company signed with IBM, according to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle.