Eric Wicklund

The uncertainty hanging over Wall Street these days hasn’t stopped investors from forming a new commercial finance firm focused on healthcare.

While the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program is moving toward national implementation in fits and starts, healthcare IT vendors are lining up with software designed to help hospitals make sense of the program.

A trip to the doctor has gotten a whole lot easier in Hawaii.

Amid perfect weather but less-than-perfect attendance, the Medical records Institute's Towards the Electronic Patient Record (TEPR+) conference kicked off Monday with talk of financial services and also the naming of winners of tech awards.

Standard Register, a Dayton, Ohio-based provider of document and workflow management solutions, has signed a five-year agreement with Atlanta-based MedAssets Supply Chain Systems.

Concerro didn't have to look very far to score its latest contract for Web-based workforce software and services.

Hospitals looking to comply with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' new requirement to report National Drug Code numbers for drugs administered in outpatient settings will be getting a big boost from IntelliDOT.

A trip to the doctor just got a whole lot easier in Hawaii. Starting Thursday, residents of the nation's 50th state were able to connect with their doctors online through the Hawaii Medical Service Association's new Online Care service.

MedSynergies, Inc., an Irving, Texas-based provider of revenue cycle and practice management software, is teaming up with the Texas Health Resources Organization for Physicians to create Texas Health MedSynergies, a management services organization designed to offer physicians a range of office management and other business services to support their practices.

Cardinal Health is joining forces with Ohio's business leaders and healthcare providers in an effort to improve patient safety in the state's hospitals.