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By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | December 10, 2008
A new study finds that physicians who use an e-prescribing system with formulary decision support can boost drug cost savings.The report was funded by the Department of Health and Human Servi...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | November 26, 2008
A new study finds that the use of electronic health records may reduce paid malpractice settlements for physicians.The study, which appeared in the November 24 issue of Archives of Interna...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | November 10, 2008
The current economy is projected to have a negative impact on imaging sales.This according to Millennium Research Group's "US Markets for Diagnostic Imaging Systems 2009" report and it...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | October 30, 2008
Despite the threat of a national recession, "the data security frontier is one area where we will continue to see capital spending," says an analyst. John H. Boyd, president of The...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | October 23, 2008
Eclipsys co-founder Terrence Macaleer has joined Chicago-based Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions as vice president of sales for the company's Enterprise Solutions Group. Macaleer will foc...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | October 20, 2008
The so-called "medical home" concept is critically dependent on information technology, said David Howes, MD, president and CEO of Martin's Point Health Care, a not-for-profit healthcare org...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | October 10, 2008
President Bush today signed the Health Care Safety Net Act of 2008 into law.  According to the bill's sponsor, Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and P...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | October 08, 2008
HealthPartners, billed as the largest consumer-governed nonprofit healthcare organization in the nation, has launched a new Web tool that provides prices for 83 procedures at its network primary care...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | October 03, 2008
The Integrated Healthcare Association, a statewide leadership group that promotes quality improvement, accountability and affordability of healthcare in California, announced Thursday the 2007 pay-for...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | October 03, 2008
LAKE SUCCESS, NY – According to a survey released by the Medical Society of the State of New York, physicians in New York say health insurer rules often force them to change how they treat their...