Bernie Monegain
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.
Humana snagged the top ranking among national payers - edging out last year's top payer, Aetna - in the fourth annual PayerView rankings published by athenahealth and the journal Physicians Practice.
Several prominent healthcare professional groups, including America's Health Insurance Plans, the American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association, met with president Barack Obama in May to announce a plan to cut healthcare costs by $2 trillion over 10 years.
Automating the nation's healthcare system could save the government nearly $600 billion in spending over the next decade and $9 trillion over the next 25 years, according to the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the Democratic Leadership Council.
It's back to the homework table for the nation's leading healthcare groups that met with President Barack Obama on Monday to discuss $2 trillion of cuts to the skyrocketing cost of healthcare.
Several prominent healthcare professional groups, including America's Health Insurance Plans, the American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association, are set to meet with president Barack Obama Monday to announce a plan to cut healthcare costs by $2 trillion over 10 years.
GE's new "healthymagination" project aims to cut healthcare costs, and among all the numbers - including the company's $6 billion investment pledge - the number 15 seems to hold the key.