Healthcare Finance Staff
Recent events may indicate Governors Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley, and Rick Perry are resisting health reform to advance their own political fortunes and, in so doing, simultaneously crumbling state healthcare systems and increasing the number of citizens left without insurance coverage.
Most office-based physicians who have adopted electronic health records are satisfied with the systems they have chosen and have noted improved patient care, according to a survey by the Department of Health and Human Services.
A Medicare website that compares hospitals, and another that that provides comparisons for nursing home options, have been revamped to provide more and better information.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has recognized 60 primary care practices with the title of "Distinction" for their commitment to engaging patients.
Humana has partnered with New York-based accelerator program Blueprint Health to help spur the development of new and innovative healthcare IT projects.
HealthEdge, a software provider that helps healthcare payers by focusing on claim processing benefit administration, business intelligence and portals, released the results of its latest State of the Payor survey:
When Barack Obama was a candidate for president, he endorsed universal health insurance, but opposed forcing individuals to buy their own insurance.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced on July 12 guidance for reporting laboratory results using Direct Project specifications.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has already received letters from 12 states declaring their commitment and plans to create a health insurance exchange.
In the second half of 2011, the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) shifted its role from a policy convener to a service provider that runs the health information exchange (HIE) infrastructure for the local HIEs and regional health information organizations (RHIOs) like a public utility.