Bernie Monegain
An annual review of the nation's health insurers by athenahealth and Physicians Practices has placed Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna at the top of the list.
Many vendors give short shrift to the usability of their electronic medical records, says Jiajie Zhang, who is devoting the next three-plus years to addressing this usability factor.
Kaiser Permanente Southern California and Kaiser Permanente Northern California were the only health plans to earn the maximum four stars for "meeting national standards of care" in the just-released HMO Quality Report from the California Office of the Patient Advocate.
Nearly half a million patients in New York's Hudson Valley are now associated with a patient-centered medical home, created in part with $1.5 million in incentives provided by six health plans organized by the Taconic Health Information Network and Community.
The American Medical Association is calling on the business community to help fight administrative waste in healthcare. A root cause of the $200 billion-a-year problem, says AMA President Cecil B. Wilson, MD, is lack of standardization.
Indiana's health IT sector, which includes more than 72 growing technologies, along with health plans, life sciences companies, academic institutions, philanthropic organizations and state government, have bolstered healthcare and the economy of the state, according to a new report.
Complicated ICD-10 conversion will affect all areas of Orlando Health, but officials said the organization is on track for meeting the Oct. 1., 2013, deadline.
NEHI, a national network for health innovation, has proposed a national strategy for disseminating comparative effectiveness research findings that would be led by the newly created Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
Consolidation, Medicare cuts on the horizon
Hospital executives are planning for budget increases over the next five years and are prioritizing strategic initiatives that had previously been on hold due to economic constraints, according to a new study by L.E.K. Consulting.