2010 Medical Office Occupational Health and OSHA Update

Medical Office Occupational Health
and
OSHA Update
Wednesday
April 14, 2010
At the
Allegheny County Medical Society
713 Ridge Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA

A program directed to administrative personnel, physicians, nurses in schools and business, medical offices, clinics, nursing homes and
other health professionals.

Registration Information
Fee: $50.00
Each additional registration $45.00

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A Bipartisan Meeting on Health Reform

February 25, 2010 10:00 AM EST
A Bipartisan Meeting on Health Reform
If you are interested in viewing, the meeting will be streamed live online at www.whitehouse.gov/live

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Highmark loses documents with personal information

Highmark Inc. is in the process of notifying 3,700 customers that papers were lost that included their personal information.
Post-Gazette Coverage
Pittsburgh Business Times Coverage

Ready for HITECH?

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Top 10 Barriers to Electronic Health Records | Physicans News

John Halamka, MD, is Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Chief Information Officer at Harvard Medical School.  He recently asked his students of his healthcare I.T. class at Harvard to read his EHR implementation project and “then develop a list of barriers to EHR implementation in their [...]

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“Pittsburgh Proud” Gala Photographs

Photographs from the ACMS Foundation gala are now available on the Viglione Photography website.

www.viglionephotography.com

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2010 ACMS Officiers

2010 ACMS OFFICERS

John Delaney President

Leo R. McCaffertyPresident-elect

Rajiv VarmaVice President

Amelia PareSecretary

Kevin GarrettTreasurer

Douglas CloughChair

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CMS to Hold Claims for 10 Business Days & Extends Participation Deadline

This past week Congress acted to avert the 21.2% Medicare physician payment cut and on December 19, the President signed into law the Department of Defense Appropriations Bill (H.R. 3326) which will stop the cuts until March 1, 2010.  Other changes reflected in the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule will still take effect [...]

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Closing the Gap in Health Care Delivery for the Underserved

Gateway Medical Society Health Care Symposium
October 10, 2009 • Herberman Conference Center • UPMC Shadyside

Additional Details

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Becoming Endorsed Vendor Information

Allegheny County Medical Society -Becoming Endorsed Vendor Information.
Becoming an Endorsed Vendor

Why would I want to be an endorsed vendor?
Endorsed vendors receive the following benefits:

Opportunity to market your services to over 2,000 physicians
Reduced Advertising Costs in the ACMS BULLETIN .
Ads will include the “Endorsed by ACMS [...]

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