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By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | March 28, 2008
ARMONK, NY – The only way that hospitals and other healthcare providers are going to rein in costs is if they learn from past practices and fine-tune the processes. That’...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | March 28, 2008
ATLANTA – The Eclipsys Corporation has added some strength to the ‘Outcomes’ portion of its ‘The Outcomes Company’ moniker with the purchase of Enterprise Performance Sys...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | March 28, 2008
MOVING HOSPITALS to a value-based payment system won’t be a slam-dunk, according to testimony presented last month in a Senate Finance Committee meeting. According to a report rel...
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:00 am | March 28, 2008
Push for e-prescribing will cut phone bills, groups say Five physician organizations have launched an e-prescribing push called “Get Connected” that aims at reducing the $8...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | March 28, 2008
GREENVILLE, SC – Emergency departments – gotta have ‘em, and gotta lose big money in the process. While hospitals are obligated to provide emergency care services, most...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | March 28, 2008
MIDDLETOWN, CT – Middlesex Professional Services has reported a 700 percent return on investment in the first year by using DocSite solutions. MPS implemented DocSite’s Regi...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | March 28, 2008
BEAVER, PA – Waiting in line is the bane of people’s experience – studies show we lose 48 hours each year queuing up. Recent surveys say people most despise waiting in line at a depa...
By Maryellen Moore | 12:00 am | March 28, 2008
PROPERLY IMPLEMENTED, electronic practice management systems can significantly boost medical practice profitability. By integrating functions such as electronic medical records, accounting, online pay...
By Chelsey Ledue | 12:00 am | March 28, 2008
ENGLEWOOD, CO – Physician practices are responding to the uncertain reimbursement environment and the failure of Medicare physician payments to keep pace with the cost of delivering care, accord...
By Fred Bazzoli | 12:00 am | March 28, 2008
GOLDSBORO, NC – Tom Bradshaw’s son was being treated at Wayne Memorial Hospital and was hooked up to an IV pump. Bradshaw, familiar with the need to have medica...