More than 35 million prescription transactions were sent electronically
in 2007, a 170 percent increase over the previous year, according to a
report developed collaboratively by the eHealth Initiative and
The Center for Improving Medication Management.
Democrats fell six votes shy (54-29) of the 60 votes necessary to move the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (S. 3101) forward in the Senate.
A data breach at UnitedHealthcare Services has affected 1,132 graduate students enrolled in the University of California Irvine (UCI) health insurance program during the 2006-2007 school year. According to UCI, the data breach has led to a rash of identity-theft crimes at the university.
The number of warning letters issued by the FDA has dropped by half in the past 10 years, which could indicate a change in enforcement tactics in an agency facing criticism about its policing of the food and drug industries.
The University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics in Salt Lake City is
launching a broad-based effort to inform its 2.2 million patients and
guarantors about the recent theft of backup tapes containing billing
records, and to provide them with resources to protect their
confidentiality.
The FDA has disqualified seven doctors from conducting clinical trials of drugs and medical devices this year, as many as in the three previous years combined, which may be a result of complaints from lawmakers about FDA discipline delays.
The number of New York City residents age 50 and older who have undergone a
colonoscopy almost doubled in five years, according to Thomas R.
Frieden, MD, the city’s health commissioner.
HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt has named 12 communities to participate
in a U.S. Medicare demonstration project that will provide incentive
payments to physicians for using a certified EHR system to improve the
quality of patient care.
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