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SSM St. Mary's Health Center in St. Louis plans to overhaul its main entranceway as part of $7 million in upgrades planned in 2010.
New business models will emerge as a result of regulatory changes in healthcare reform law, concluded a panel at the last week's Health Technology Investment Forum.
If the Recovery Audit Contractor comes calling, your financial data will be put to the test. The good news: There are a number of measures that can stave off unwanted discoveries. Carla Engle, a product manager at MediRegs, a division of Wolters Kluwer, offers 10 steps providers can take to make themselves more audit-proof.
Kaiser Permanente will put solar power systems in 15 healthcare facilities across California by the summer of 2011.
Employers who blend value-based health insurance with the medical home model will save money and improve outcomes, according to a new study.
The Regenstrief Institute, recognized as a healthcare IT leader, has been awarded a contract to help the Social Security Administration and Indiana healthcare providers make disability case determinations faster and better.
The number of Medicaid-subsidized inpatient hospital stays originating in the emergency room increased more than 6 percent from 2008 to 2009, according to SDI.
More than $80 million in losses over the last four years has led Children's Hospital & Research Center of Oakland, Calif., to develop a three-year plan to restructure its services.
The Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH), a nonprofit alliance of health plans that seeks to simplify administration for payers and providers and enable better care for patients, has announced a partnership with VeriSign, Inc., the Mountain View, Calif. network infrastructure company.
The two of them will launch a pilot program that aims to demonstrate a secure data exchange that could be a model for national health IT interoperability.
President Barack Obama will soon nominate Donald Berwick, MD, to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, according to a statement released Saturday by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee.