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Congress is preparing for swift action on refunding and expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program, known as SCHIP, under the new Obama administration.
Poudre Valley Health System, a private not-for-profit healthcare organization in northern Colorado, has won the 2008 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
The Department of Health and Human Services has released the long-awaited ICD-10 codes and extended the compliance date for adopting them from October 1, 2011 to October 1, 2013.
Former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) withdrew Tuesday from consideration as Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, according to a White House statement. The withdrawal follows a Senate Finance Committee vetting review that revealed Daschle had tax violations.
Bergen Regional Medical Center in Paramus, N.J. has completed the redesign and renovation of its 8,000-square-foot emergency department.
Humana, one of the nation's largest health-benefits companies, has promised to adopt machine-readable patient ID cards and, in the process, won the acclaim of the Medical Group Management Association, which estimates the cards could save physician offices and hospitals as much as $1 billion a year.
Patients who have a clear understanding of their after-hospital care instructions are 30 percent less likely to be readmitted or visit the emergency department than patients who lack this information, according to a new study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Amid perfect weather but less-than-perfect attendance, the Medical records Institute's Towards the Electronic Patient Record (TEPR+) conference kicked off Monday with talk of financial services and also the naming of winners of tech awards.
The Senate Finance Committee's vetting process of former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D. ) for Secretary of Health and Human Services may have hit a snag due to recent reports that Daschle failed to pay some of his taxes since 2005.
Broadlane, based in Dallas, has announced a relationship with MEDmarketplace.com, offering clients an avenue for selling or buying used equipment through an online community comprised of other healthcare providers and more than 600 medical equipment brokers.