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Learn how to transition to the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10).

U.S. hospitals are only halfway to qualifying for government incentive payments aimed at controlling healthcare costs while improving the quality and effective delivery of patient care, according to a survey released by technology consulting firm CSC.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota?s 10,000 employees and family members are part of a new pilot program testing the insurer?s Online Care Anywhere program. The program is designed to allow patients access to medical care from home or work via computer or phone.

Aetna and WellPoint are the first national health plans to earn certification for electronically exchanging administrative data using the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange Phase II rules.

Remote monitoring of patients in intensive care units was not associated with an overall improvement in the risk of death or length of stay in the ICU or hospital, according to a study.

The federal government can encourage physicians to buy electronic health record systems, but it is the vendors and hospitals that affiliate with doctors that ultimately will determine whether they adopt them, according to a new report from healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information.

Should a physician send his or her patients a "friend request" on Facebook? Social networking poses new challenges and rules for doctors and other professionals who embrace it.

Various areas of coding, including hospice patients, e-prescribing and tuberculosis test results, are addressed

In 2009, 4 percent of the population was enrolled in a consumer-driven health plan.

The New Jersey Attorney General's Office issued a report in December that urged lawmakers to forbid most financial relationships, gifts and free meals between physicians and pharmaceutical and medical device companies.

The American Medical Association (AMA) changes in Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding from year to year can have an enormous effect on any practice.

In-flight medical events are in an area of medicine that is often overlooked but occurring more and more.

Get your questions answered on managed care capitated plans when planning for retirement.

Patient safety improvements in the last 10 years received a grade of B-minus.

Get your questions answered on whether to accept managed care capitated contracts.

Retirement plan supplementation is addressed

Most primary care physicians work in practices with too few Medicare patients to measure differences of quality and cost performance.

Dissatisfaction with health records is widespread among physicians, but a recent study has found that physicians do not grade all systems equally in terms of performance and satisfaction.

How to know whether to retire is addressed

There is no reason you can't provide high quality care in a timely fashion. Ten to 15 minutes is plenty.

Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter to 33 medical societies requesting information about the financial backing they receive from the pharmaceutical, medical device and insurance industries.

Paying off student loan debt is addressed

Upon entering the cancer patient's home, it was clear that this dying girl's family lived and breathed--existed--solely to take care of her.

Iowa?s Medicaid program is the first to receive federal matching funds for planning activities necessary to implement the electronic health record (EHR) incentive program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, according to an announcement from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Two of the largest electronic health record systems in the country, Kaiser Permanente?s HealthConnect and the Department of Veterans Affairs? VistA, have joined forces in a pilot project in San Diego to exchange electronic health record information using the Nationwide Health Information Network created by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Orem, Utah-based research firm KLAS released its annual rankings of the best-performing healthcare IT software and services vendors.

Daily text-message reminders appear to increase patient adherence to recommendations from physicians, at least when it comes to sunscreen use, according to a report in the Archives of Dermatology.

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology has announced the first electronic health record products to be certified under its CCHIT Certified 2011 Comprehensive and Preliminary ARRA 2011 programs.

Percent of patients in the emergency department seen by a physician within the recommended triage time is at its lowest point in at least 10 years.

In the wake of Coca-Cola doling out a large-sum grant for a consumer health website operated by the AAFP, controversy has ensued.