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Bernie Monegain

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

By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 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 | 12:00 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 | 12:00 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 | 12:00 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...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | January 06, 2009
AARP CEO Bill Novelli identified healthcare IT as a key initiative in his organization's work with the 111th Congress on reducing healthcare cost and boosting quality."This is not the ti...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | January 02, 2009
CAHQ says a new batch of healthcare organizations - including The American Academy of Family Physicians, MD On-Line and Gateway EDI - have committed to simplifying electronic administrative data throu...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | December 30, 2008
Helping Medicaid is a critical piece of New York Gov. David Paterson's request for federal aid to states, as outlined in a letter Monday to President-elect Barack Obama.Paterson joins other g...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | December 29, 2008
The University of Iowa Health Care has recovered more than $20 million in hospital payments from insurers by employing its own software and a new approach to revenue management.Beginning last...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | December 29, 2008
The Internet and social networking, pay-for-performance, the economic crisis and conversion from ICD-9 to ICD-10 disease code sets are among the top issues facing healthcare in 2009, according to Pric...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | December 24, 2008
With a Dec. 31 deadline looming for physicians to qualify for bonuses under Medicare's 2008 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative, the Pennsylvania eHealth Initiative (PAeHI) is reminding physicians...