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By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | July 29, 2008
Potentially preventable medical errors that occur during or after surgery may cost employers nearly $1.5 billion a year, according to new estimates by the Department of Health and Human Services' Agen...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | July 29, 2008
Fogarty International Center, the global arm of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has launched a $1.5 million-a-year grant program to fund domestic and overseas training of researchers to fight...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | July 29, 2008
A Houston-based provider of electronic medical records software designed specifically for mental and behavioral health providers is adding electronic claims processing to its platform.Eulogix...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | July 29, 2008
GE Healthcare Financial Services has signed a $75 million deal to provide a senior secured credit facility to The Schumacher Group, an emergency medicine management firm based in Lafayette, La....
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | July 28, 2008
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, plans to introduce legislation this week designed to expose physicians who overuse self-referred imaging services under...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | July 28, 2008
The Aecon Group, Inc., Canada's largest publicly traded construction and infrastructure development company, has completed negotiations for the renovation and expansion of Toronto Rehabilitation Insti...
By Diana Manos | 12:00 am | July 28, 2008
In a bipartisan battle over how to protect Medicare's future, the House passed a measure last week to prevent President Bush from going forward with a proposed Medicare savings plan.The Hous...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | July 28, 2008
MphasiS Healthcare Solutions/Eldorado of Phoenix has announced a partnership with NavigatorMD to use claims data from HEALTHpac and Javelina to improve health plan design and management....
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | July 25, 2008
A new bill seeks to support the use of patients' homes and community-based services as care sites, potentially providing several different financing incentives to the healthcare system.Sens....
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | July 25, 2008
In an effort to increase the use of energy-efficient technology, the Department of Energy has launched the EnergySmart Hospitals initiative at the annual meeting of the American Society for Healthcare...