Skip to main content

Diana Manos

Diana Manos is Senior Editor for Healthcare IT News. Located in Washington, D.C., she covers policy and legislation issues surrounding healthcare IT. Follow Diana on Twitter @DManos_IT_News.

By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | February 14, 2008
A bipartisan bill introduced in the House this week would bring the concept of nationwide universal health insurance, as recently discussed by leading presidential candidates, closer to reality....
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | February 13, 2008
The Department of Health and Human Services proposed a plan Tuesday to improve the quality and safety of healthcare through the confidential reporting of medical errors. According to the proposed rule...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | February 08, 2008
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released plans for improving care in nursing homes and other facilities for its beneficiaries. The plans come by way of CMS'...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | February 07, 2008
A new trend in using software-as-a-service, or SaaS, can not only help healthcare facilities save money on their software applications, but it can help free up information technology specialists to fo...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | February 05, 2008
President Bush's fiscal year 2009 budget request, released to Congress Monday, totals more than $3 trillion, with proposed cuts of $200 billion to Medicare and Medicaid and no plans to address the 10....
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | February 04, 2008
Premier Inc. has announced the results of a study on Medicare hospital pay-for-performance, revealing improved quality of care, lower costs and declining patient mortality rates....
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | January 31, 2008
Rapidly rising healthcare costs are not simply a federal budget problem - they are America's number one fiscal challenge, according to David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States....
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | January 29, 2008
In his final State of the Union speech last night, President Bush prioritized pressing domestic economic issues ahead of healthcare, which has been the top domestic issue for several years....
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | January 25, 2008
MEMPHIS, TN – Researchers at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and the University of Memphis Center for Healthcare Technology have taken a lead from the military on an innovative way to explore ho...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | January 25, 2008
With healthcare a top domestic issue in the 2008 presidential election, a new study shows that voters are  not likely to cross party lines when it comes to reform....