IPRO's Renato Estrella, MSHA RHIA, Director, Health Information Management, Federal/Medicare Health Care Assessment, was installed as President of the New York Health Information Management Association, Inc. (NYHIMA) for 2008-09 during the association's awards banquet this summer, at the Saratoga Hilton Hotel in Saratoga Springs, New York.

An overwhelming majority of Americans believe the U.S. health care system should be changed fundamentally or rebuilt entirely, according to a survey of 1,004 adults conducted by Harris Interactive and released in August by the Commonwealth Fund.

Hospital mortality data recently made available by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services include for the first time each institution's risk-standardized mortality rate, an estimate of the certainty of that rate and the number of cases included in the computations.