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The Department of Health and Human Services will fund two additional grant programs totaling $38 million to support the training and development of the skilled workforce required to support broad adoption and use of health information technology.

The watchdog group Patient Privacy Rights has released its first personal health record privacy report card in an effort to educate and protect consumers.

The Department of Health and Human Services expects to award in March $60 million to universities and research centers to support the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology.

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology is updating its electronic health record technology certification programs to conform to the interim final rule recently released by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Eighty-five percent of healthcare providers believe that their ambulatory electronic health record software will let them meet the 2011 meaningful use deadlines being considered by the federal government, according to a report from research firm KLAS.

Get your questions answered on secondary insurance billing.

This year may be active in terms of changes to the tax code.

Less than 10 years out of medical school, one primary care physician is living the dream-he does not accept insurance or Medicare, he won't file reimbursement paperwork for patients, and his practice is thriving.

Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Maine launches a pilot program that offers online visits to patients of physicians at two medical centers.

A 21 percent reduction in physicians' Medicare fees was temporarily dismissed thanks to a defense spending bill signed by the President in December.

Brian Forrest, MD, explains how he arrived at a cash-only practice that does not accept insurance.

The subculture of boxing that includes trainers, promoters, and even the doctors is difficult to explain unless you're submerged in it.

HHS began seeking bids to create a national, all-payer, all-claims database to use for comparative effectiveness research.

Get your questions answered on discharge letters.

Get your questions answered on how to charge people for their appointments in light of a tough economy.

Amendment of a medical record can be a good thing, but be sure to complete your records correctly the first time.

Life insurance trusts are addressed

Greenway Medical PrimeSuite Chart took top honors in multiple categories in research firm KLAS' annual rankings of the best-performing healthcare IT software and service vendors.

How to know whether universal life insurance is necessary is addressed

Beginning with the 2009 tax return, tax refunds can be used to purchase Series I U.S. savings bonds just by completing the appropriate sections of the tax return.

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.