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OREM, UT – With tight operating margins, shrinking reimbursement rates and competition from other facilities, hospitals and large physician groups must constantly improve their ope...

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL – Maccabi Healthcare Services, a leading Israeli HMO, has announced that it has been selected to help build a new national healthcare information technology system for Bulgaria,...

WILMINGTON, DE – Last July, the research firm HealthCore released a study showing that use of a patient clinical summary (PCS) electronic health record in an emergency department results in sign...

NEW YORK – When a physician meets with a patient, he/she expects to have all the latest information on hand, from the patient’s own personal health record to the latest information on...

CMS finalizes details of physician p4p program The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced the details of its 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative. The volun...

ELMWOOD PARK, NJ – Emdeon Corp. will soon be rolling out an initiative to help connect payers and providers with an electronic payment and remittance service. Emdeon is planning...

By ricHard A. norling and Stephanie Alexander Regardless of how it’s funded, pay for performance, or value-based purchasing, is coming. Congress has mandate...

MINNEAPOLIS – UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation’s largest managed care organizations, took a bold step last month to boost its footprint in the western U.S. by acquiring Sierra Health...

COVINGTON, KY – When financial professionals think of emergency departments, they often don’t think of bill collection as a natural extension of operations. Emergency care often is as...

WASHINGTON – Employers who want to contain healthcare costs should consider implementing innovative benefit designs, said a recent study released by the Center for Studying Health System Change...