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Precyse Solutions, which specializes in health information management, and M*Modal, which develops speech understanding and natural language processing technologies, have joined with the Geisinger Health System for a first-of-its-kind partnership to improve clinical documentation and coding accuracy.
The payer market is largely split with regard to readiness for the January 1, 2011 Level 1 compliance deadline, according to a December 2010 poll by The Gantry Group, LLC.
The Camden Group has released its annual Top 10 Trends in Healthcare in 2011, which finds pressures to reduce costs and improve quality in healthcare will trigger an avalanche of activity centered on accountable care organizations, bundled payments and patient-centered medical homes.
A.M. Best announced Monday that it is maintaining a negative outlook for the health insurance industry.
With unemployment high and state budgets tight, a recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured found nearly all states maintained or made targeted expansions of their Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program eligibility and enrollment rules in 2010.
Nearly one in three doctors cite practice management costs and administrative burdens as a chief concern for their practice, according to a new survey.
The Cleveland Clinic plans to create a program that would focus on patient-physician collaboration.
A proposal by Holy Cross Hospital to build a new hospital in Maryland's hotly contested Montgomery County is being challenged by a rival hospital with similar plans - and concerns that religious directives could get in the way of providing certain community services.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has postponed Wednesday's vote on a bill to repeal healthcare reform following the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and 19 others at a public event Saturday in Tucson.
Tenet Healthcare has adopted a new stockholder rights plan - a so-called "poison pill" - in an attempt to thwart a hostile takeover by Community Health Systems.