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By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:49 pm | February 08, 2012
What with the presidential non-binding primary over, Missouri is more than just one of three states where Rick Santorum surprised the nation.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:13 am | February 08, 2012
Electronic prescribing is continues to grow steadily in California, potentially increasing the safety of the prescribing process, according to a new report from Cal eConnect. 
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:19 am | February 06, 2012
A burgeoning market for healthcare peripherals and increasing smartphone processing power will result in the number of patients monitored by mobile networks to rise to 3 million by 2016, according to a new report on the mHealth sector from Juniper R
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:34 pm | February 03, 2012
Just about everybody in the health policy blogosphere has noted with disappointment the failure of Medicare's demonstration projects to reduce the costs of care. Recall that these are critical to President Obama's challenge "To find out what works and then go do it."
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 10:17 am | February 03, 2012
After presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) came in fourth in the Florida primary Jan. 31, he told supporters during his closing speech that he is eager to meet Mitt Romney in the caucus states, one of which is Nevada, on Saturday.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 06:57 am | February 03, 2012
Health information exchange will ramp up significantly in 2012 because the necessary elements of interoperability will be in place, ONC chief Farzad Mostashari, told the Health IT Policy Committee at a meeting Feb. 1.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:30 pm | February 02, 2012
The Medical Group Management Association on Wednesday urged the U.S Department of Health and Human Services to take immediate action to help alleviate payment disruptions that have occurred due to the transition to HIPAA 5010.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:24 am | February 01, 2012
Health data breaches in the U.S. increased 97 percent in 2011 over the year before, according to a new report by Redspin, a leading provider of IT security assessments.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:21 am | February 01, 2012
New Department of Health and Human Services data released last week  show that premiums for Medicare Advantage plans decreased an average of seven percent for 2012 and that enrollment increased by 10 percent.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:40 am | January 31, 2012
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Blue KC) will roll out a new enterprise master patient index (MPI) that will enable the insurer to meet new demands for comprehensive, aggregated patient data in the health information exchange (HIE) environment.