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Diana Manos

Diana Manos is Senior Editor for Healthcare IT News. Located in Washington, D.C., she covers policy and legislation issues surrounding healthcare IT. Follow Diana on Twitter @DManos_IT_News.

By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | July 25, 2007
Reps. Nancy Boyda (D-Kan.) and Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.) introduced a bill July 24 to protect rural pharmacies from potential financial disaster. Medicaid reim...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | July 23, 2007
Healthcare costs are not just a major concern in the United States, according to a report published in Health Affairs. Healthcare is responsible for annually driving more than 150 million people world...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | July 20, 2007
Providers should not procrastinate using National Provider Identifiers, according to speakers at Thursday's Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange NPI Forum....
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | July 13, 2007
Experts from both sides of the aisle predict that healthcare, though important to most Americans, may not play a major role in the upcoming presidential election. At a July 10 bri...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | July 09, 2007
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued new rules last week to make it easier for states to approve applicants to the Medicaid program. The rules, issued July 2,...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | July 09, 2007
WASHINGTON – Healthcare IT adoption may be painful, but the fruits are well worth it, according to Brent James, MD, vice president of medical research and executive director of the Institut...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | July 06, 2007
Providers and health plans are locked in a competitive struggle for the upper hand to gain market share and patients. Their focus is not on delivering value or reducing the cost of care – i...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | July 05, 2007
The Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) announced last Friday the results of a study that reveals a potential shortage of primary care physicians. Accordi...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | June 28, 2007
Most Massachusetts residents support a new law effective July 1 that requires everyone in the state to have health insurance, a recent study shows. The findings sh...
By Diana Manos | 01:00 am | June 26, 2007
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) should be taken into account along with costs and evidence of value, if it has any hope of lowering healthcare costs, experts say. A Web exclusive int...