By Charles Settles The ICD-10 mandate may be delayed another year, but providers and EHR vendors shouldn’t view the reprieve as an opportunity to relax. ...
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By Julie Watson ASSOCIATED PRESS When a Dallas County sheriff’s deputy who had entered the apartment of the first patient to die from Ebola in ...
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By Phil Galewitz A new survey finds the public has a lot to learn about how the Ebola virus is transmitted, which could help explain the growing ...
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By April Dembosky, KQED Troy and Alana Pack had spent the day at their neighborhood Halloween party in Danville. Ten-year-old Troy went as a baseball player, ...
Read More »Limiting Malpractice Claims May Not Curb Costly Medical Tests
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Oct. 15, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Malpractice reform may not keep physicians from ordering unnecessary and expensive tests, a practice known ...
Read More »Doctor: Take The Fight To Ebola
By Karen Rizzo, MD Many of us suspected that there would be a day when Ebola would arrive in the United States and indeed it ...
Read More »Second Person Tests Positive for Ebola
By Emily Schmall and Nomaan Merchant ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS (AP) — A second health care worker at a Dallas hospital who provided care for the ...
Read More »Supreme Court Stops Parts of Texas Abortion Law
By Mark Sherman ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked key parts of a 2013 law in Texas that had closed ...
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