News
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will integrate the reporting of quality measures from physicians in its Medicare program using electronic health records with those from providers who demonstrate meaningful use of EHRs under the HITECH Act.
SciQuest, a Cary, N.C.-based provider of procurement and supplier enhancement solutions, is joining forces with Atlanta-based e-invoicing provider OB-10 to offer an integrated e-procurement and e-invoicing service for healthcare providers and other industries.
CSI Financial Services, a provider of low-interest bank loans to patients, has secured agreements to provide loans to self-pay patients at three Midwest hospital systems.
A report by the Pennsylvania Department of Health shows that healthcare-associated infection rates at the state's acute-care hospitals declined by 12.5 percent in 2009.
The Hospital Corporation of America has entered into a letter of intent with Mercy Hospital in Miami, Fla., for the sale of the acute care facility to HCA.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed a regulation that would implement preventive health benefits created under the Affordable Care Act for seniors and persons with disabilities who rely on Medicare for their healthcare coverage.
Congress passed measures Thursday to delay a 21 percent Medicare doctor payment cut that was scheduled to take place this month. According to Cecil B. Wilson, MD, president of the American Medical Association, the six-month delay is only "a very temporary reprieve."
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has designated more than 1,800 physicians in roughly 500 practices across the state as patient-centered medical homes, the largest PCMH effort in the United States and one that has information technology at its core.
Although the U.S. economy is beginning to show signs of recovery, hospitals are still impacted by the lingering effects of the economic recession, according to the American Hospital Association.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has designated more than 1,800 physicians in roughly 500 practices across the state as patient-centered medical homes, the largest PCMH effort in the United States.