Richard Pizzi
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care Consumer Confidence Index found that Americans' confidence in their health insurance coverage and access to healthcare dropped slightly in August.
Athenahealth, Inc., a provider of Internet-based business services to physician practices, has launched a program guaranteeing that physicians who use its EHR service will receive a HITECH Act bonus payment under the 2011 program year.
Catholic Health Initiatives, a 20-hospital national nonprofit healthcare organization, is using Intelligent Optical Character Recognition technology to convert paper-based medical bills and payments into electronic accounting records.
The Social Security Advisory Board has released a report calling on policymakers to find lasting solutions to the long-term problem of escalating healthcare costs.
The U.S. Census Bureau announced this week that the number of people without health insurance coverage rose from 45.7 million in 2007 to 46.3 million in 2008, although the percentage remained unchanged at 15.4 percent.
The Joint Commission is launching the Center for Transforming Healthcare, designed to use new methods to find the causes of dangerous breakdowns in patient care.
Widely cited estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau likely overstate the number of uninsured people and understate the number of people with Medicaid coverage, according to a study published in Health Affairs.
The North Shore-LIJ Health System next week will finalize the sale of the first installment of a $425 million capital financing program, highlighted by the construction of a $300 million pavilion at LIJ Medical Center in Queens.
A joint venture formed by the Wellmont Health System and the HealthSouth Corporation has been awarded a certificate of public need to open a new inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Bristol, Va.
Alabama Medicaid enrollment has jumped by nearly 50,000 people in the past two years, with the largest increase coming in children, teens and pregnant women.