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Memorial Medical Center in Port Lavaca, Texas, realized a $50,000 bump in revenue in just three months by optimizing the billing process.

Grand Junction, Colo., gets a lot of credit and attention as being home to pioneers in providing high-quality, low-cost healthcare. Healthcare leaders in the city of more than 58,000 are once again demonstrating their initiative.

The burgeoning mHealth field offers healthcare a wealth of opportunities to engage with patients and provide a satisfactory return on investment. But if mobile medical apps are going to stand any chance of survival -- with physicians as well as consumers -- they'll have to be able to integrate.

A new actuarial analysis of general and professional liability (GL/PL) claim costs for long-term care facilities offers good news and bad news. The good news first: frequency of claims is neither increasing nor decreasing. The bad news: the severity of claims is increasing steadily.

Based on venture capital funding levels, deal totals and merger and acquisition activity, global consulting firm Mercom Capital Group reports that the healthcare IT sector is experiencing its highest levels of economic bustle since 2010.

With the financial pressures that healthcare organizations are facing, many hospitals are using traditional cost cutting methods to save money by looking at layoffs and staff reductions. Many more hospitals, however, are finding ways to reduce costs through lean management methods that don't require layoffs and can improve quality for patients.

As widespread drought annihilates crops and sends prices increasingly higher, supply chain managers at healthcare facilities are no doubt eyeing their budgets.

Healthcare and pharma IT mergers and acquisitions transaction volume increased 28 percent while transaction value decreased 14 percent during the first half of 2012, according to a new report from mid-market investment banking firm Berkery Noyes.

HCA's TriStar Health is wading deeper into the urgent care center market. On Monday, TriStar and CareSpot, an urgent care center operator, announced a joint venture that will open as many as 15 new urgent care centers in middle Tennessee next year.

The Supreme Court’s ruling on the health reform law will spur more consolidation in the healthcare industry, according to a recent survey by healthcare public affairs firm Jarrard Phillips Cate & Hancock.