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Hundreds of California nursing home caregivers hope to see improvements under a new agreement negotiated by the United Long-Term Care Workers' Union, SEIU 6434.Seven new contracts provide wag...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is continuing to nudge doctors toward e-prescribing with the announcement Thursday of an initiative that offers them a boost of 5.1 percent in pay for...
The Western Maryland Health System plans to implement Web-based infection control and pharmacy modules at its two campuses to prevent healthcare-associated infections, optimize antibiotic use and redu...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced a final rule establishing Medicare payment and policy changes for services in hospital outpatient departments and ambulatory surgical cente...
A new report estimates that the reusable medical device market will reach $4 billion, with 12.9 percent annual growth, by 2012.The report, by industry analysts at Kalorama Information, says h...
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...
Key elements of Medicare's Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) must be improved so that physicians can participate and use the information to increase the quality of patient care, according...
As part of its national campaign to save billions of dollars by improving the accuracy and efficiency of medical claims processing, the American Medical Association has selected November for the first...
Since Massachusetts passed its 2006 law requiring employers to provide easy access to healthcare, some 439,000 people have gained coverage. But a study released Thursday by the Center for Studying Hea...
BECAUSE HEALTHCARE “customers” don’t fit the conventional role of goods and services buyers, provider organizations haven’t made customer relationship management a priority....