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Department Of Health And Human Services


CDC: Medical technology to treat heart disease on the rise, expensive

Industry News | Friday, February 19 2010
 

Federal FY2011 budget requests $911B for HHS

Industry News | Tuesday, February 02 2010
 

HHS: States have to adopt adverse licensure action reporting system

Industry News | Monday, February 01 2010
 

Judge refuses to hear ACC suit against HHS

Top Stories | Wednesday, January 13 2010
 

ACC sues HHS over 2010 Medicare payment rates

Top Stories | Sunday, January 03 2010
 

CBO: Senate healthcare bill would reduce deficit by $132B

Top Stories | Wednesday, December 23 2009
 

House votes to temporarily suspend Medicare physician payment cuts

Top Stories | Thursday, December 17 2009
 

Blumenthal issues $80M in ARRA grants to boost health IT workforce

Top Stories | Tuesday, November 24 2009
 

AHRQ: Anticoagulant prescriptions in U.S. total $900M+ in 2007

Top Stories | Wednesday, November 18 2009
 

Feature: Imaging payments, appropriateness under OIG review

Top Stories | Monday, October 12 2009
Written by Jeff Byers
 

HHS, DOL release $1B in ARRA funds for health IT adoption, healthcare jobs

Top Stories | Friday, February 12 2010
 

ACC, AHRQ fund $3.5M study to examine ICD use

Industry News | Monday, February 01 2010
 

OIG: Adverse event reporting process varies regionally

Industry News | Friday, January 15 2010
 

Minnesota Hospital settles whistleblower suit

Top Stories | Thursday, January 07 2010
 

Spectranetics settles with U.S. gov’t agencies for $5M

Top Stories | Sunday, January 03 2010
 

HHS seeks to develop all-payor, all-claims database

Industry News | Friday, December 18 2009
 

DoJ, HHS beef up Medicare fraud strike force

Industry News | Wednesday, December 16 2009
 

HHS revises Medicare fee-for-service error rates

Industry News | Thursday, November 19 2009
 

Trial sites to be issued fines if they don’t notify patients of data breaches

Industry News | Thursday, November 05 2009
 

Senate Finance Committee unveils its version of healthcare reform

Top Stories | Wednesday, September 16 2009
 


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AHRQ: Health IT could be disruptive while reducing rehospitalization rates, costs

 The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).