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WASHINGTON – A program that provides financial incentives to hospitals that meet quality of care standards has been financially restructured and extended three years by the Centers for Medicare...
Vendor to subsidize free EMRs for docs via ads A vendor of electronic medical records has announced that it will make use of Google’s AdSense program to help sponsor free...
MARIETTA, GA – An initiative of the Medical Banking Project aims to develop a common medical banking platform in the next year to support a growing range of healthcare financial transactions....
LOS ANGELES – A coalition of California health insurers that last year paid $55 million to physician groups for reaching quality care measures in a pay-for-performance program has added care eff...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have announced plans for reporting physician performance to Medicare beneficiaries. CMS plans to make the public reports by combini...
Congress urged to reject Medicare, Medicaid cuts Some 223 representatives signed a letter in March asking the House Budget Committee to reject more than $100 billion in cuts to hosp...
Nearly one-third of Americans are intolerant of inaccuracy greater than 5 percent when it comes to physician performance ratings, a new study by the Center for Studying Health System Change suggests....
NEW ORLEANS – Mapping out prospective savings in specific service lines has helped Salem (Ore.) Hospital executives make the case for a significant deployment of information technology....
Upside Software, Inc. of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, a vendor of Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions, has announced that the Chicago-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield Associat...
WHEN PEOPLE THINK about what medical care used to be, many have idealized memories of close doctor-patient relationships forged over many years. They remember a doctor who knew the patient’s med...