Skip to main content

Bernie Monegain

Bernie is the Editor of Healthcare IT News. Follow Bernie on Twitter @Bernie_HITN.

By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | July 09, 2008
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey executives say the insurer will be the first in the nation to invest in electronic medical history technology for select network hospitals. The insurer wil...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | July 09, 2008
Selecting and implementing an electronic health record system is among the top concerns physician practice managers list in a new survey by the Medical Group Management Association. According...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | June 26, 2008
A new report published by PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) Health Research Institute finds that two-thirds of health leaders, including government and private payers from 20 different countries, see prob...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | June 25, 2008
Tenet Healthcare Corp. has agreed to sell its majority stake in Broadlane, a technology-oriented healthcare services company, to TowerBrook Capital Partners in a $155 million cash deal.The de...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | June 24, 2008
The Healthcare Financial Management Association, which is in the midst of its annual conference here, has released the first in a series of reports aimed at building a new payment system for healthcar...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | June 24, 2008
More than 27,000 healthcare providers who received Medicare payments in 2006 together owe the government more than $2 billion in back taxes, according to a new report from the Government Accountabilit...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | June 23, 2008
Community Medical Centers, a 727-bed not-for-profit health system in California's San Joaquin Valley, plans to streamline its business processes with new technology.St. Paul, Minn-based Lawso...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | June 23, 2008
Sun Capital HealthCare Inc. is among the 400 vendors exhibiting their services and technology at the Annual National Institute of the Healthcare Financial Management Association this week in Las Vegas...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | June 18, 2008
Cardinal Health executives are preparing for a summit on a healthcare topic that has received plenty of publicity in recent months - hospital-acquired infections. Cardinal says the infections are asso...
By Bernie Monegain | 01:00 am | June 18, 2008
A pay-for-performance project has resulted in a 15.8 percent boost in quality over three years at 250 hospitals across the country, the Premier healthcare alliance reported Tuesday. The Centers for Me...