Eric Wicklund
Microsoft is highlighting the importance of “community” in healthcare.
The advent of pay-for-performance initiatives and cuts in federal reimbursements for preventable medical emergencies are prompting hospitals to take a closer look at the post-discharge process. With studies indicating billions of dollars lost each year when patients return to a hospital for treatment, officials are looking for ways to reduce those readmissions.
Healthcare providers looking at large construction projects are finding that the process they use for inventory management can also be applied to bricks and mortar.
The owners of two bankrupt hospitals in Hawaii have announced plans to convert both to non-profits - a reorganization plan that would save as much as $6 million a year and, in the words of one official, bring them closer to the communities they serve.
Approximately 170 physicians affiliated with the Phoenix Children’s Hospital will soon find more time to spend with their patients, thanks to the implementation of a new software system to automate coding and billing.
MedAssets, based in Atlanta, has announced that Huntsville Hospital, based in Huntsville, Ala., and including Huntsville Hospital, Huntsville Hospital for Women & Children, the outpatient Medical Mall, Madison Medical Park and affiliates Athens-Limestone Hospital in Athens, Ala., and Helen Keller Hospital in Sheffield, Ala., will deploy the company’s revenue cycle management solutions for claims management and claims audit and resolution.
Advantedge Healthcare Solutions, a Warren, N.J.-based provider of physician billing and practice management services to hospital-based physician groups, other specialty physician practices and ambulatory surgery centers, has acquired AHP Billing Services, a Falmouth, Maine-based provider of outsourced billing and coding services.
GE Healthcare announced Wednesday morning the acquisition of MedPlexus, Inc., a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based developer of EMR/PM solutions for independent clinical practices.
MedAptus, based in Boston, has announced that physicians with Jordan Physician Associates of Plymouth, Mass., are using the MedAptus Inpatient Edition to capture and submit professional charges while on service at Jordan Hospital.
Emdeon is boosting its portfolio of service offerings to payers with the planned acquisition of Healthcare Technology Management Services.