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The American Medical Group Association has launch an online database containing salary and financial operations data from medical groups nationwide.

Employment at U.S. hospitals fell 0.7 percent in March 2009 to a seasonally adjusted 4,709,900 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week.

Colorado Governor Bill Ritter issued an executive order last week directing the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to craft new safety guidelines, including the denial of payment for avoidable medical errors.

The U.S. Congress has an inadequate understanding of the cost savings that healthcare information technology can provide, said a Pennsylvania Congressman at HIMSS09 Sunday.

Nearly $36 million in funding is being distributed to the 54 State Health Insurance Assistance Programs to help people with Medicare get more information about healthcare choices.

Missouri’s safety net healthcare providers are seeing increased numbers of uninsured patients and are incurring new financial strains as a result of the changes made to Missouri’s Medicaid system in 2005.

They say necessity is the mother of invention. If true, one could make the argument that if a stalled credit market is necessity, then leasing and used equipment purchasing is the invention.

The April 2009 Product Spotlight features chargemaster maintenance solutions.

Passport health joins forces with eSolutions;Broadlane signs contract with Hospital Partners, Inc,;Home Care Delivered launches PayerPro system; Metavante to provide software to CareFx

At the TEPR+ conference this past January in Palm Springs, Calif., Picis CEO Todd Cozzens pointed out that healthcare IT vendors are focused these days on developing products that not only improve clinical outcomes, but save money.