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Hospitalists reduce stays, have little impact on cost A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that patients treated by hospitalists had slightly shorter le...
Contributed by Sen. Chuck Grassley HEALTHCARE REFORM has been elusive over the past two decades. Neither Congress nor the sitting president has been able to agree on ways to improve our hea...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.) today is expected to outline a bleak prognosis for the budget of running the nation's most populous state and the impact the funding will have on citizens' health...
FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE Newt Gingrich and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) have added their voices to the call for electronic prescribing. Kerry is among the sponsors of bipartisan legislation...
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – Jim Pack, the CEO of AdvancedMD Software, Inc., figures that his company has never seen most of its customers. And that’s just fine with him. “...
WASHINGTON – Long-term care groups are concerned about the conflicting pressures of increasing calls for quality and declining reimbursements. Nursing home organizations were hopin...
SIOUX FALLS, SD – Using a virtual intensive care unit is enabling a rural healthcare system to provide critical care cost-effectively across several states. The virtual approach has b...
CHICAGO – Hospitals seem to be adjusting to the need for more specific coding by moving that responsibility to interdisciplinary processes and adopting clinical documentation improvement pr...
NEW ORLEANS, LA – Findings from a data warehouse containing medical claims from three of Louisiana’s major payers reveals unwarranted variations in care throughout the state....
Chicago-based Allscripts has announced the purchase of the Extended Care Information Network, also of Chicago, for approximately $90 million. ECIN provides hospital care management and discharg...