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FTC Probes CVS
November 6, 2009 9:51 AM by Cheryl McEvoy

Your friendly neighborhood drug store--OK, more like the corporate colossus that runs it--is under investigation again. CVS Caremark Corp. announced yesterday that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating the company's business practices, according Read More...

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Movies and Medical Records
November 3, 2009 12:47 PM by Lisa Algeo

(Editor's note: The following blog was written by Mark McGraw, an associate editor on staff at ADVANCE .) It's movie night, and you're not interested in subtitles or surrealism. Maybe next week you'll go for the one with the "Winner: Best Foreign Language Read More...

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On the Record
September 30, 2009 11:24 AM by Cheryl McEvoy

With all the prep for next week's American Health Information Management Association Convention and Exhibit and our HIM Team of the Year coverage (Yes, we have a winner!), I've been neglecting my Google Alerts. Well, I found some time this morning to Read More...

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Registry: Child's Play?
August 6, 2009 10:43 AM by Cheryl McEvoy

Call me a bandwagoner, but I just started reading Julie and Julia (Quite frankly, I'm just a wannabe foodie who wanted something to breeze through after being semi-forced into reading a 500-page sci-fi book). I was poring through Julie Powell's witticisms Read More...

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HIPAA be damned?
July 14, 2009 8:05 AM by Lynn Jusinski

[Editor's note: This is a guest blog by ADVANCE for Nurses editor Lyn A.E. McCafferty, who contributes to the "ADVANCE Perspective: Nurses " blog featured on the ADVANCE for Nurses Web site.] If you think the fictional Nurse Jackie and HawthoRNe are bad Read More...

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A Dose of Reality
March 26, 2009 9:58 AM by Cheryl McEvoy

Thanks to Obama's rah-rah health care reform, the general public is turning an ear to EHR. But what exactly are they hearing? At first mention of EHRs in the stimulus package, news outlets swooped in with the "revolutionizing health care" angle. A national Read More...

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