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Hospitals rated in the top 5 percent in the nation have a 29 percent lower risk-adjusted mortality rate and are improving their clinical quality at a faster pace than other hospitals, according to a study issued Tuesday.
A developer of software solutions designed to help hospitals manage their revenue cycle operations is turning its attention to the consumer with the release of a self-service kiosk.
The MRO Corporation, a King of Prussia, Pa.-based provider of release-of-information, audit tracking and document management applications and services, has announced that DeKalb Medical in Decatur, Ga., and St. Luke’s Hospital and Health Network in Bethlehem, Pa., will; implement the company’s Audit Tracker Online solution.
A Detroit jury has convicted Troy, Mich., physician Toe Myint of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud in a $4.2 million Medicare fraud scheme.
Hundreds of federal and state stakeholders are urging Congressional leaders to extend Medicaid funding established under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The American Academy of Family Physicians says that proposed meaningful use regulations would pose hurdles that challenge small- and medium-size medical practices’ ability to achieve incentive payments for the use of electronic health records.
Providence Health & Services, a 27-hospital non-profit health system, based in Renton, Wash., has selected a vendor to provide primary early placement outsourced revenue cycle services for its California facilities.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will grant Alaska, Kentucky, South Carolina and Wisconsin federal matching funds for EHR implementations.
Venture capital investment in healthcare has exceeded that for information technology for the first time, according to new statistics released Friday.
Healthcare data is rendered meaningless unless it can be shared, industry experts say.