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A federal court has allowed the filing of an amicus brief exposing how the Obamacare "preventive health" Mandate issued by HHS ignores serious health risks to women including stroke, heart attack, increased risks of cancer and STIs.

HHS & CMS to Speak on Federal HIT Initiatives at Healthcare IT Summit

The Colorado Health Insurance Cooperative, Inc. (CO-OP) has been approved for a $69 million loan to start and operate a statewide nonprofit health insurance CO-OP.

Beacon, a leader in performance-based solutions, announced that it is a member of the winning Hygeia Solutions Partners (Hygeia) team for the Chief Information Officer – Solutions Partners 3 (CIOSP3) contract.

The longer the delay the worse for hospitals that have been planning for the ICD-10 transition

Citing a redundancy of conflict rules and potential devastation of commercial support for continuing education, the CME Coalition submitted a detailed, 32-page comment letter to CMS today seeking an exemption from the Sunshine Act for accredited CME.

Hendersonville High School's Bearcats are revving up to bring back the glory days of 78 and 80, as remembered by Hunter Nissan's own Kevin Young.

In the interest of public health and safety, Sane Vax Inc., appeals to the Secretary of Health and Human services to request that the FDA approval of Gardasil® be rescinded due to lack of efficacy demonstrated during post-licensure monitoring.

INADEV Corporation has won a contract to assist the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

Donations of GTB Technologies Data at Rest Scanners are currently underway to Non-Profit Cancer Centers in the United States, to aid with HIPAA compliance; the tool searches for such things as PHI and PII data.

The report emphasizes on developing adequate security controls, framing security policies and procedures, employee training and compliance management.

Professor John Banzhaf asked the first question at this morning's announcement by HHS's Secretary Kathleen Sebelius about her agency's "Tobacco Control Action Plan, Here are more questions which might help to put her announcement into perspective.

Today's announcement that HHS will fight the almost $200 billion/yr tobacco epidemic primarily only by requiring bigger and more graphic warnings on cigarette packs and ads is too little, too late, and wrongheaded, says ASH

“America’s Great Outdoors” Initiative provides opportunity for disability access issues to be brought forward for resolution

A $1-million federal grant wil give Michigan better oversight of proposed insurance rate hikes

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius just issued some new regulations and she wants to be sure the government knows exactly how fat you are. After all, obesity causes lots of disease.

Interim Final Rules for Health Plans & Health Insurance Coverage relating to status as a Grandfathered Health Plan under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have been issued by HHS. The document is now available on our website.

USDA signals junk science-fueled power grab moving full steam ahead

Top Government Health agencies have known about a Swine Flu cure and are turning a deaf ear. This lack of interests in keeping American lives safe extends from Ms. Sebelius, Secretary of Health, down to the CDC and FDA.