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MARIETTA, GA – A recent test of standards to determine banks’ compliance with privacy and security safeguards has been effective, and the organization developing those standards now seeks...
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Very few ambulatory surgery centers are implementing electronic health records, even as they acknowledge that paper charts are increasingly becoming antiquated and may be costi...
A NEW STUDY CONFIRMS an old truth: You get what you pay for. And findings from the study are as startling as they are encouraging. Nearly 70,000 lives would be saved and hospital costs could be reduce...
ANOTHER INSURER has said it will no longer pay for hospital treatment required after egregious mistakes made by hospital staff.Cigna HealthCare announced it is taking steps to stop reimbursin...
New AHRQ Web resource targets provider savingsThe Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has launched the Health Care Innovations Exchange, the federal government's repository for succ...
DEARBORN, MI – The stakes for control of labor organizing in healthcare organizations grew last month after a confrontation between members of two union groups in Dearborn, Mich.The Cal...
LEBANON, NH – According to a report by the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Medicare pays many hospitals and their physicians more than the most efficient and effecti...
Arizona State University (ASU) College of Nursing and Healthcare Innovation has received a $700,000 grant to launch a mobile health initiative that will bring essential primary care services to unders...
WASHINGTON – Provider groups, reacting to uncertainty surrounding the use of national provider identifiers on claims forms, are asking the government to delay enforcing use of the numbers after...
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform expressed growing concern Tuesday that hospital emergency rooms are not ready to handle a mass casualty event such as a terrorist attack using co...