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With an overwhelming number of vectors and variables to consider, planning a hospital budget might now be considered in the same league as rocket science.
IBM’s financing arm has announced partnerships with four healthcare IT vendors in an effort to push electronic health records to providers ahead of the government’s incentive program.
Some companies just aren’t meant to go public.
With the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and Medicare’s Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program expected to dominate the headlines in 2010, developers of financial products for the healthcare market say the year’s buzzword should be accountability.
In October, the Harris County Healthcare Alliance, in collaboration with UnitedHealthcare and Community Health Choice, launched a program to offer healthcare benefits to uninsured employees of small businesses in the Texas county.
Blue Shield of California and network hospitals that have deployed its Partnership in Operations Excellence and Transparency (POET) have seen a reduction in administrative costs.
Retail health clinics were a disruptive threat to payers and providers when they first appeared in mid-2000.
The success of retail clinics relies on collaboration with local physicians, according to a recent case study.
The long-term care sector is looking at positive demographics for business in 2010. An aging population – and more people who are choosing home care and want to avoid institutions – should keep the home care, hospice and durable medical equipment communities busy.
Boiled down to one word, the outlook for physicians in 2010 is uncertain.