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Florida boosts fraud prevention in public assistance programs

 Anthony Brino May 15, 2013
Florida has some of the highest public program fraud rates in the nation, and it's also the first state to adopt a front-end fraud prevention technology for social and health programs, with a pilot in greater Orlando.
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3 lessons on risk: What higher ed can teach health IT

 Rick Kam May 13, 2013
Data breaches are a fact of life. That's exactly why managing risk is so critical to healthcare organizations' ongoing privacy and security efforts.
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Senator halts Tavenner nomination to head CMS

 Diana Manos April 26, 2013
Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, said he is "beyond upset" that money for The Prevention Fund will be cut and cited that as his reason for blocking the nomination.
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Why the CDC wants to modernize its pathogen, sequencing informatics

 Anthony Brino April 19, 2013
In its 2014 budget proposal, the CDC is seeking $40 million to modernize its infectious disease informatics and sequencing tools. As antibiotic-resistant bacteria grow and new pathogens like H7N9 evolve, the CDC sees the new systems as a long-term investment.
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Q&A: On health data 'we can't dream big enough'

 Tom Sullivan March 25, 2013
Pulse8 CEO John Criswell sees plenty of opportunity to harness the information that HIXs and HIEs will have as a means for both bending the cost curve and bettering care quality.
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How to use HIMSS13 to propel your ICD-10 preparations

 Carl Natale February 28, 2013
The HIMSS13 Annual Conference and Exhibition runs March 3-7 in New Orleans. It will be the place to get up to speed on the state of ICD-10 preparations.
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HHS awards app prize to Marshfield Clinic

 Bernie Monegain February 15, 2013
Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation to receive $100,000 for its Heart Health Mobile app, which helps users determine risk of heart attack or stroke.
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Mobile HIX enrollment: A critical asset for ACA success

 Lucy Streett February 13, 2013
A large percentage of the Americans that the Affordable Care Act aims to bring into the insurance pool access the Web primarily through their smartphones. For the ACA to achieve its potential, federal and state governments must reach those citizens where it's most convenient for the consumer.
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VA Blue Button adds patient summary document tool

 Mary Mosquera January 23, 2013
The VA Continuity of Care Document (CCD) uses recognized standards that support patient data exchange between healthcare systems and providers.
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Are providers ripe for a massive medical records heist?

 Tom Sullivan January 14, 2013
Stolen health records are worth five orders of magnitude more than financial ones -- and as mobile devices, electronic information exchange, and healthcare cloud repositories proliferate across an industry lagging in encryption practices, those health records might become more alluring to organized criminals.
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Interactive Health Unveils Comprehensive Wellness Program in Response to Health Care Reform Mandates

 Industry News Release January 08, 2013
Interactive Health, a leader in outcomes-based health management programs, today announced a new comprehensive wellness solution, Healthy Triumph. Healthy Triumph supports employers as they respond to health care reform mandates specific to wellness and preventive care. The new program focuses on early detection of health risks, while enabling employers to reward their employees for proactive health management. Healthy Triumph uses clinical measurements coupled with healthy activities to create a personalized health action plan designed to meet the unique needs of each individual.
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Spending cuts 'put public's health at risk'

 Kaiser Health News www.kaiserhealthnews.org January 08, 2013
The American Public Health Association's executive director says the "resources reductions now have been so substantial" that there will be a broad impact.
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5 steps to protect patient privacy

Rick Kam December 07, 2012
Rick Kam of ID Experts and Ponemon Institute chairman Larry Ponemon share tactics gleaned from the field research that produced this year’s report on Patient Privacy and Data Security. Consider them starting points.
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5 steps to protect patient privacy

Larry Ponemon, PhD December 07, 2012
Rick Kam of ID Experts and Ponemon Institute chairman Larry Ponemon share tactics gleaned from the field research that produced this year’s report on Patient Privacy and Data Security. Consider them starting points.
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MGMA12 wrap-up: New mission, vision and values

 Roberta Mullin October 26, 2012
Roberta Mullin of HITECHAnswers reports from the first annual shindig of the combined MGMA-ACMPE, which concentrated on guiding practices toward the future, whether they intend to remain independent or combine with other health entities.
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes

 Tom Sullivan October 05, 2012
Defining big data, why the four Congressmen who want to suspend MU payments are crazy, the emerging business case for HIE, and the most important Q&A I've come across in a while.
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An informatics chief's foray into big data and P4 medicine for personal analytics

 David Riley October 01, 2012
David Riley of Harris Healthcare Solutions took a 9-month research journey to learn about P4, and how analyzing genetic information could improve his health, as well as what the practices mean for future health IT.
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The political healthcare week on Twitter

 Anthony Brino September 20, 2012
Rising healthcare costs, CBO estimates, Steinbeck wrote his doctor, healthcare as an entitlement and more. Here are comments and observations on healthcare from Twitter users around the world.
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HHS opens innovators program to public voting

 Mike Miliard September 10, 2012
For the first time, HHSinnovates will include a People's Choice award, electing the winner from the six finalists.
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Health IT, at least on the Big Island, starts with fresh vegetables and gardening

 Mary Mosquera August 30, 2012
Hawaii beacon promotes healthy living activities to engage and educate individuals as foundation for trust for EHRs and information exchange.
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