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PROVIDERS are facing greater pressure to streamline their operations, according to Paul Pitcher, director of financial systems at KLAS. There is an ever-increasing focus on such areas as denials ma...

Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said Monday his department will do all it can to promote the use of electronic prescribing as a way to launch widespread use of healthcare IT....

WAYNE, PA – The way David St. Clair sees it, MEDecision’s merger agreement with the Health Care Service Corporation, announced in June, couldn’t have come at a better time.T...

The push to make healthcare more consumer-friendly has reached into yet another staple of everyday life: The cell phone.The development of Apple’s new iPhone, whose 3G version was laun...

Proper maintenance of records, complete reporting on forms and strict adherence to regulations should keep not-for-profit hospitals in good standing with the Internal Revenue Service over executive co...

DALLAS – Healthvision is setting its sights on the Canadian market with the acquisition of MediSolution, Ltd.’s healthcare unit.In a deal announced July 16, the Dallas-based provi...

TAMPA, FL – According to the Centers for Disease Control, an estimated $75 billion in direct medical expenditures was attributable to obesity in 2003, and annual hospital costs related to overwe...

With a depressed economy and already strained state budgets, a House panel on Tuesday considered extending emergency federal assistance to state Medicaid programs.The House Energy and Commerc...

According to a recent report released by PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute, medical cost trends in the private sector will drop from 9.9 percent in 2008 to 9.6 p...

Executive search firms form strategic allianceTwo of the nation’s leading healthcare executive search firms have formed a strategic alliance. CES Partners Ltd. and Hersher Associates...