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Health and Human Services Fiscal Year 2016 Budget

HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell faces tough questions from Sen. Lamar Alexander (R – TN) over the EHR Incentive program which Alexander says is driving physician dissatisfaction.

Scientists are skeptical about the secret blood test that has made Elizabeth Holmes a billionaire

Business Insider covers Silicon Valley-based lab test vendor Theranos and its 31 year old billionaire founder Elizabeth Holmes. Despite its incredible early successes, the process Theranos uses to run its lab tests is still being kept secret and the company has yet to publish peer-reviewed studies comparing its results to traditional ones.

MEDITECH Announces Avera Health Moving Forward with 6.1 Web Release

MEDITECH announces that it has been selected to implement its “groundbreaking, completely Web-based EHR” across Avera Health System’s (SD) 33 hospitals and 208 clinics.



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