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Bernie Monegain

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

By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 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 | 12:00 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 | 12:00 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 | 12:00 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...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | June 12, 2008
Information technology and the ability to share health information are key to transforming the broken - and costly - U.S. healthcare system to one that keeps costs down by putting the patient and well...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | June 10, 2008
The Premier healthcare alliance, which lists 2,000 hospitals across the country as members, says the type of quality reporting that requires proprietary information, tools or methodology is too expens...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | May 29, 2008
Aetna ranks No. 1 in business dealings with physicians, according to athenahealth's PayerView rankings. Among other performance criteria that put Aetna in the top spot, athenahealth found tha...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | April 28, 2008
Health Evolution Partners, the investment management firm founded by the nation's former national healthcare information technology chief, has made its first investment - an undisclosed amount - in e-...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | April 23, 2008
HealthEdge, a software company that develops and markets technology for healthcare payers, has received $13 million in venture capital. Company officials say they will use the money to improve their p...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | April 17, 2008
The use of information technology is the focus of a foundation formed by The Regence Group, which will fund $2.5 million in healthcare projects in its first year and $4 million per year thereafter....