Bernie Monegain
For the second year in a row, Humana ranked first in overall performance among 148 payers, according to the 2014 PayerView Report. The report ranks health insurers according to specific measures of financial, administrative and transactional performance.
Powerful social forces will drive the healthcare industry to innovate, overcoming institutional and political inertia, says healthcare consultant and futurist Ian Morrison. But things may not get 'serious' until 2018.
Allscripts announced Thursday that its Q3 bookings were down 39 percent. In the wake of its poor performance, CEO Glen Tullman confirmed that the firm is considering "strategic alternatives" for a possible sale of the company.
Electronic health record systems vendor Allscripts announced Monday that it has hired Richard J. Poulton as its new CFO. Poulton will step into the role on Oct. 29.
As Medical Group Management Association president Susan Turney prepares for the group's annual conference in San Antonio on October 21-24, she took time out to discuss the biggest financial and IT challenges currently facing the healthcare industry.
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.