Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius has sent a letter to several insurance company CEOs asking them to publicly justify proposed health insurance premium increases.
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Hilda Solis have released a total of nearly $1 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) awards to help healthcare providers advance the adoption and meaningful use of health IT and train workers for the healthcare jobs.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded more than $119 million to U.S. states and territories to support public health efforts to reduce obesity, increase physical activity, improve nutrition and decrease smoking.
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Thursday released the first U.S. strategy focused on protecting people’s health during a large-scale emergency by establishing priorities for government and non-government activities over the next four years.
Incentives in the Health IT for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act represent an opportunity to accelerate the development, standardization and utilization of quality measures derived from clinical data in EHRs and from other clinical data sources, according to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS).
U.S. Representative Frank Pallone, D-N.J., chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, released a statement today suggesting that health insurance coverage should not change despite the recent recommendations.
The U.S. government policy regarding mammography screening “remains unchanged,” said Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius Wednesday, as she moved to clear up the “confusion” caused by the release of new screening recommendations earlier this week by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Tuesday that $27.8 million in grants would become available, through the the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, to expand EHR and health IT adoption and usage in the United States.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded $33 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds with the objective to expand training of healthcare professionals.
Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius has released more than $25.7 million in grants to increase support services at U.S. health centers.
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Loss of patient data and prescription errors are just two potential safety risks associated with health IT (HIT) adoption. As the FDA examines these issues, the agency is questioning how to better regulate this new electronic field and which branch of government oversight is best suited to monitor such safety concerns.
In a letter to Leslie Margolin, president of Anthem Blue Cross, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently asked Anthem Blue Cross to publicly justify its decision to raise premiums for its California customers by as much as 39 percent.
The administration of President Barack Obama is requesting $911 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in its 2011 federal budget proposal, with an additional $110 million requested for continued health IT efforts.
The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has filed a complaint against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in U.S. District Court, alleging that Sebelius, in her capacity as the HHS secretary, unlawfully adopted the payment rates for cardiology services in the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) by using an invalid Physician Practice Information Survey (PPIS) in a manner that “threatens access to care for patients and…increases medical care costs.”
After an attempt by 30 people to submit over $61 million in false Medicare claims, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Justice (DoJ) have teamed up to augment current task force operations under the Healthcare Fraud Prevention & Enforcement Action Team.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and National Health IT Coordinator David Blumenthal, MD, this week announced the availability of $235 million in grants for “beacon communities” to act as models for health IT implementation.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has released a report on how the Columbia Basin Health Association has used health IT to transition paper based-charts into an EMR system, making it one of the first in the United States to fully complete the switchover to an EHR.
Sens. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., have sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urging that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) spare radiation oncology services from a proposed Medicare reimbursement cut.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded $70.9 million in grants to 13 states to support expansion of healthcare coverage for their uninsured populations.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and David Blumenthal, MD, the head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, announced today that about $1.2 billion in grants are being made available to promote the use of EHRs.
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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).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.
When officials at Howard Memorial Hospital in Nashville, Ark., started drawing up plans for a new facility that opened in July 2009, Cindy York, the hospital’s director of radiology, had to make some decisions.