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Bernie Monegain

Bernie is the Editor of Healthcare IT News. Follow Bernie on Twitter @Bernie_HITN.

By Bernie Monegain | 11:48 am | January 19, 2009
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has urged President Obama to make universal healthcare his biggest priority, second only to rescuing the economy.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:44 am | January 16, 2009
United HealthGroup and Aetna have agreed to pay millions of dollars to members who were scammed in what New York investigators called a "rigged" billing system.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:12 am | January 15, 2009
Thousands of lives - and an estimated $400 billion in healthcare spending - could be saved by putting healthcare information technology to work and adopting best practices, said former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, the founder of the Center for Health Transformation.
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | January 13, 2009
Integration capability weighs heavily on hospital executives replacing legacy lab systems and revenue management technology, according to two new reports from research firm KLAS.Seventeen per...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | January 13, 2009
United HealthGroup has agreed to a $50 million settlement following an investigation by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo into charges that the insurer overcharged its members millions of dollars...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | January 12, 2009
President-elect Barack Obama once again turned his focus on healthcare and technology over the weekend as he addressed the nation on the topic of unemployment in his weekly radio address, promising to...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | January 09, 2009
It's possible to provide health insurance for uninsured Americans and also save healthcare costs, asserts a report released Friday by the Commonwealth Fund. Technology would have to play a ke...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | January 08, 2009
Health and Human Services nominee Tom Daschle pledged Thursday that he would apply the lessons of the past to work toward healthcare reform. "When healthcare reform collapsed in 1994, I rememb...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | January 07, 2009
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has called on Congress to invest $30 billion on broadband, the smart electronic grid and healthcare information technology as a way to create as ma...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | January 07, 2009
The Department of Health and Human Services unveiled a plan Wednesday that includes healthcare information technology as a critical piece in preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). The goa...