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By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | July 22, 2008
The new $829 million Ronald Reagan Medical Center opened its doors last month, culminating years of construction and planning.The 1-million-square-foot building contains 520 beds and includes...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | July 22, 2008
TALLAHASSEE, FL – Florida hospitals will be facing more public scrutiny as the state becomes the first in the country to publish data on readmissions that could be potentially prevented....
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | July 22, 2008
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed new efforts to promote access to higher-quality and more efficient healthcare for Medicare beneficiaries under the 2009 M...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | July 22, 2008
Microsoft executive Bill Crounse, MD urged an audience of healthcare executives here Tuesday at the Third Annual World Congress Leadership Summit on The Road to Interoperability to develop a new busin...
By Bernie Monegain | 12:00 am | July 22, 2008
The Premier healthcare alliance, which lists 2,000 hospitals across the country as members, says quality reporting that requires proprietary information, tools or methodology is too expensive and s...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | July 22, 2008
NEW YORK – Pending legislation in New York is raising concerns among hospital organizations, some of which fear the laws may increase hospitals’ liability for the expenses of duplicating m...
By Molly Merrill | 12:00 am | July 22, 2008
To assist small to medium-sized practices and community health centers in Georgia and South Carolina, electronic health record provider Sevocity will offer up to $100,000 in grants to spur clinics in...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | July 22, 2008
BSCF expands infection prevention programMore than 50 hospitals in California will be joining the Blue Shield of California Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Initiative, an effort...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | July 22, 2008
WASHINGTON – The Medical Group Management Association is asking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to call a “time out” on implementing the latest phase of changes to t...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | July 22, 2008
I’VE GOT SOME ‘60s music blaring in the background as I write this. I’m having a nostalgia moment.For a brief spell in mid-July, I was having flashbacks to my youth in Chica...