According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 40 percent of smokers globally die from lung diseases, such as cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and tuberculosis. Tobacco use is the largest preventable cause of death and disease in the United States....
Their widely different policies are sure to attract significant attention in both the Congressional and Presidential campaigns Both President Obama and Mitt Romney are concerned about the...
Medicare appears to be the more badly hit because of increasing health insurance expenses An aging populace and a very slowly recovering economy are taking their toll on the long-term condition of...
Physicians May Not Be Willing to Go the CPOE Route The chief information officers of hospitals are not as optimistic now as they were a couple of months back about their ability to conform to...
Last week, President Obama signed into law the MMEA (Medicare and Medicaid Extenders Act of 2010). It looks like healthcare providers and medical billing companies could be affected by the changes...
Consequent to the announcement made by Linda Kloss in July, the outgoing chief executive of AHIMA, of her resignation, a nationwide search was started by the AHIMA Board for a replacement. On the...
The system of two-tiered healthcare in the US is something which many of us are familiar with. Just as it is with restaurants and with other services in America, those who give more money receive a...