Bernie Monegain

New analysis shows that safety net hospitals have improved patient care through a nationwide value-based purchasing demonstration project.

If the nation’s top health insurers would fix their ailing claims processes, physicians could focus more on patients and the system could save as much as $200 billion a year, American Medical Association officials say.

The nation could save billions of dollars each year in the healthcare system by addressing certain areas of administrative complexity, according to a new report from the Healthcare Administrative Simplification Coalition.

Twenty-three hospitals have been recognized as the top in the country for quality care and operational efficiency by the Premier healthcare alliance.

Twenty-three hospitals have been recognized as the top in the country for quality care and operational efficiency by the Premier healthcare alliance. The alliance is composed of more than 2,100 U.S. hospitals and more than 58,999 other healthcare sites that have joined together to boost care, while cutting costs.

A new nationwide initiative is promoting e-ordering as a means to cut the billions of dollars in waste a year resulting from unnecessary or duplicative diagnostic image tests.

GE will offer no-interest loans to physicians and hospitals that buy the vendor's electronic medical records systems, GE Centricity EMR and GE Centricity enterprise technology, company officials announced Monday.

Valerie Fetters, chief financial officer of Hillsdale Community Health Center, an 84-bed hospital in Hillsdale, Mich., is used to keeping an eye on the bottom line.

President Barack Obama devoted his entire weekly address on Saturday to championing healthcare reform.

The market for electronic medical record data transfer equipment and applications, valued at $575 million in 2008, is forecast to reach $1.6 billion in 2013, according to a study by research firm Kalorama Information.