Fred Bazzoli

Picture archiving and communications systems have moved mainstream in North America and Europe. The imaging systems, once considered pricey and cumbersome for clinicians to u...

PRINCETON JUNCTION, NJ – An alliance that’s promoting the benefits of using smart cards in healthcare suggests the cards can contain both clinical and financial information to improve care...

PHILADELPHIA – In expanding its use of a document management system to hold and share patient information, the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network also is seeing a payoff in efficiency and r...

LONG BEACH, CA – Telemedicine, long believed to have the potential for facilitating healthcare treatment, may be about to play a significant role in ambulatory settings. According to...

WASHINGTON – The nation’s not-for-profit hospitals are likely to face more scrutiny into whether the services they provide merit their tax-exempt status. The Government Accou...

About all you can conclude from all the discussion and attention being paid to healthcare reform is that it is a hot topic, one that politicians believe will resonate with the public....

PITTSBURGH – Consolidation and economies of scale are two key reasons behind the combination of two large Blues plans in Pennsylvania. The merger, announced in late March, will form an orga...

WINCHESTER, VA – Hospitals dealing with patients who say they have no insurance often have trouble collecting for services after the fact. Even though some organizations may feel that pay...

WASHINGTON – The number of people covered by health savings accounts or high-deductible health plans rose to 4.5 million this past January, up more than 40 percent from the previous year....

WASHINGTON – Providers and payers making a good-faith effort to implement the national provider identifier will have as much as 12 more months to start using the identifiers on claim forms....