Healthcare Finance Staff

Susan Turley, CFO, Doctors Hospital at Renaissance, McAllen, Texas

Mary Hatch, CFO, Dixie Regional Medical Center, St. George, Utah

James Lee, CFO, Adventist HealthCare, Rockville, Md.

Chrissy Yamada, CFO, Evergreen Healthcare, Kirkland, Wash.

If healthcare reform was the storm of 2010, then the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services would be the lightning rod.

The Wisconsin Health Information Organization is working with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to release CMS' Medicare data and add the information to its WHIO Health Analytics Exchange, according to executive director Julie Bartels.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aims to boost the effectiveness of Medicare's fee-for-service program by making it easier for consumers to choose the hospitals they use based on the quality and cost of the services they offer.

IBM and Aetna subsidiary ActiveHealth Management, alongside Medens Corp., will deliver cloud services to help physicians in Puerto Rico share and exchange health information and make more accurate decisions about patient care.

A class action filed against Florida insurer AvMed Health plans seeks redress for a data breach that occurred when two laptops, containing patient information for 1.2 million members, were stolen from the company's headquarters in December 2009.

Pediatrician and Harvard professor Donald Berwick, MD, chief of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services since July 12, went to Capitol Hill Wednesday to outline the agency's plans for making the programs stronger and more modern, in part by employing health information technology.