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Three healthcare organizations have developed a Web-based tool to help physicians assess patient safety procedures, with an eye toward reducing practices’ liability exposure....

A software vendor with a significant presence in selling accounting software to small businesses sees huge opportunities in the healthcare market, specifically in physician offices....

Following quality measures in treating patients saved lives and money in four of five disease types, according to results of a joint government-private sector pay-for-performance project....

Physician payment cuts may hit Medicare patient care Declining Medicare physician reimbursement may cause nearly 40 percent of medical group practices to limit the numb...

NOVEMBER1-3: Annual Conference, American Academy of Medical Administrators, Atlanta.5-7: Annual Conference, National Business Coalition on Health, New Orleans.6-8: Lean for S...

Physician practices see the rise of pay-for-performance plans on the horizon - and they're beginning to worry about the implications. While many are intrigued about the prospects f...

Checking employees' comings and goings with a time and attendance system wouldn't seem likely to win a staff popularity contest. However, the system - and other related capabilities - ha...

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons is involved in discussions with other payers after announcing a partnership with WellPoint to deliver performance data for WellPoint's pay-for-performance program in m...

Graphs from the October 2006 issue of Healthcare Finance News. If you have questions about the data, please contact editor Fred Bazzoli....

Officials at Spectrum Health, an integrated delivery network in Michigan, could probably give 10 persuasive reasons why putting healthcare prices on a hospital Web site is a bad idea. Ba...