Healthcare Finance Staff

Nursing home industry faces “perfect storm” California’s nursing home industry is facing a “perfect storm” of problems associated with finances, qual...

CMS finalizes details of physician p4p program The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced the details of its 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative. The volun...

NEW YORK – When a physician meets with a patient, he/she expects to have all the latest information on hand, from the patient’s own personal health record to the latest information on...

RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ – Long known for its background in imaging and radiology solutions, Agfa HealthCare is entering the American EMR market with the launch of its ORBIS platform at Sampson Regio...

Congress urged to reject Medicare, Medicaid cuts Some 223 representatives signed a letter in March asking the House Budget Committee to reject more than $100 billion in cuts to hosp...

Vendor to subsidize free EMRs for docs via ads A vendor of electronic medical records has announced that it will make use of Google’s AdSense program to help sponsor free...

By ricHard A. norling and Stephanie Alexander Regardless of how it’s funded, pay for performance, or value-based purchasing, is coming. Congress has mandate...

Upside Software, Inc. of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, a vendor of Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions, has announced that the Chicago-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield Associat...

Greenway Medical Technologies of Carrollton, Ga. has announced that its has launched an advanced revenue cycle management (RCM) service, PrimeARM, to help physician practices reach th...

Lawson Software of St. Paul, Minn. has announced that Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, N.H. has licensed the company's Enterprise Financial Management and Supply Chain Management...