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As recent studies have shown, health systems across the country are increasing their IT spending in the next five years or so. Given that, it is imperative that chief information officers and chief financial officers partner to create strategic budgets said a CIO and CFO during an education session Tuesday at HFMA's national conference in Las Vegas.
The Supreme Court ruled that the individual mandate survives as a tax under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
In 2010, Scott Hawig, chief operating officer at Duke University Health System, and Jim Bohnsack, executive vice president of product development at Transunion Healthcare, decided to analyze the behavior, demographic and financial makeup of one hospital system's patient population against service lines to determine how to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs at the same time.
The healthcare economy is expected to grow at twice the rate of the national economy between now and 2020 and will create an additional 5.6 million jobs over those eight years, according to a report released by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.
The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) -- the state's Medicaid agency -- has agreed to pay $1.7 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to settle possible violations of the HIPAA Security Rule, making it the second largest settlement for HIPAA violations to date.
The U.S. Department of Treasury late last week proposed regulations aimed at aiding patients gain access to financial assistance at charitable hospitals while also providing protection to patients from overly aggressive payment collection in the ER.
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) believes a private-public partnership would be better to run the future Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN), rather than a federal body alone.
Over the last seven months, St. Joseph Health System (SJHS), a large healthcare organization located in California and western Texas, has been using a multi-disciplinary approach to engage its physicians and clinicians in understanding the impact of clinical practice patterns and resource variability.
With the fervor of a true believer, former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker urged an audience Tuesday during a keynote address at HFMA's ANI conference in Las Vegas to be the leaders the country's lawmakers are not.
Already running one of the largest ophthalmology practices in the country, Henry Ford Health System announced last week that it has agreed to merge with the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology (DIO).