The Health Information and Management Systems Society has created mHIMSS, a new initiative focused on mobile and wireless healthcare technologies, according to a HIMSS news release.
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Lower reimbursement rates for Medicare, Medicaid and other payors have made it critical for a hospital or health system CFO to keep the organization's revenue as tight and clean as possible. Eric Dickerson, managing director of the healthcare practice at…
Erlanger Health System's board of trustees has promoted COO Charlesetta Woodard-Thompson to interim president and CEO of the Chattanooga, Tenn.-based organization, according to a Times Free Press report.
Executives from Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and Roseland Community Hospital met several weeks ago to discuss a potential partnership, according to a Crain’s Chicago Business report. The organizations did not discuss a merger, but agreed to meet again in early…
A chiropractor has reported that 566 of his patients' personal information were publicly available online for an undetermined amount of time, according to a New England Cable News report.
Carthage (N.Y.) Area Hospital has selected an interim CEO, whose identity was not revealed at the time of the announcement, according to a Watertown Daily Times report.
The telehealth market is poised for increased competition over the next ten years, according to an InMedica news release.
CMS has suggested eligible professionals do not select NQF 0085: Heart Failure: Warfarin Therapy Patients with Atrial Fibrillation as one of their additional clinical quality measures for meaningful use.
The University of California regents recently approved raises for several executives within the system, including a 23 percent raise for Vincent Johnson, COO of the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, Calif., according to a Sacramento Bee report.
Health insurers Cigna and Humana both decreased their federal lobbying efforts in the third quarter of fiscal year 2011.