Bernie Monegain
After a series of setbacks throughout the past year, it appears that EHR vendor Allscripts may be looking for a buyer, according to reports from several media outlets.
Through a new five-year initiative, UPMC will create what officials call a best-in-class data warehouse to bring together clinical, financial, administrative, genomic and other information in order to provide more personalized care.
The National Quality Forum Board of Directors has endorsed 19 measures related to pulmonary conditions, including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumonia.
The National Quality Forum voted to uphold its decision to endorse an all-cause hospital-wide readmissions measure, which had been challenged by seven hospitals.
New compliance measures and shifts in information technology stalled payer performance improvement in 2011 according to the seventh annual PayerView rankings released today by health IT company athenahealth.
The recipients of 81 new Health Care Innovation Awards were announced last week by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
It has been a tumultuous three weeks at EHR powerhouse Allscripts: disappointing Q1 earnings, the ouster of its Board Chairman, the resignation of three other board members and an announcement that its CFO would leave the company in mid-May for a job outside the industry. Company CEO Glen Tullman tackles these issues and more in this exclusive Q&A.
A new program called the New York Digital Health Accelerator (NYDHA) is attempting to make New York a hub for the emerging digital health technology industry.
CMS announced its final rule for preventing Medicare fraud Tuesday, while the GAO issued a report requesting more action be taken.
HHS settles with an Arizona physicians' practice for $100,000 over their failure to adequately protect patient health records.