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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...
Report: CMS needs better oversight of programsThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services needs to do a better job monitoring the billions of dollars it provides in supplemental payme...
Medical practices stress over EMR conversionSelecting and implementing an electronic health record system is among the top concerns physician practice managers list in a new survey by the...
New research reveals that healthcare executives place a higher priority on energy efficiency than other industry executives and are more likely to expect to make improvements over the next year....
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...
Adequate financing, improving the quality of care services and developing an adequate, skilled workforce are some of the urgent challenges facing long-term care in the future, said respondents to the...
Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt has awarded more than $49 million in grants to 30 states to provide health insurance to residents who can't get conventional coverage because of the...
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...
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...
Most health economists would agree with the truism that about 5 percent of patients in a given populations account for about 50 percent of costs. There are a number of variations on this hyperbolic Pa...