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NEW YORK – A spate of lawsuits questions the findings of a New York state commission that recommends the closing of nine hospitals and changes affecting 48 other facilities....
OREM, UT – In a recent survey conducted by the Healthcare Financial Management Association, the top three capital investments now being undertaken by hospitals are information technology-related...
WASHINGTON – A study released Jan. 4 by the Center for Studying Health System Change shows that physicians are still predominantly paid for productivity rather than quality. The s...
The concept of a regional health information organization is one that’s difficult to oppose. What healthcare organization wouldn’t want to have a data-sharing organization in place th...
SAN FRANCISCO – Three hospitals are expected to soon implement a new approach to delivering primary care, testing a concept projected to provide cost-effective options for insurers and reduced h...
STAMFORD, CT – As the deadline to start using national provider identifiers approaches, essential information for implementing the identifiers still hasn’t been released by the government....
Credit card options made available for physicians An Irvine, Calif.-based information vendor has updated its database of more than 600,000 physician offices to include information...
WASHINGTON – The ability of the federal government to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies is shaping up as the first healthcare policy hot button of 2007. On Jan...
WASHINGTON − Apple’s stock-option granting practices may be the highest-profile case under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, but the inquiry into UnitedHealt...
Our family got a new car last summer. We really needed it, but it was more costly than we thought. So we’re figuring out ways to save money. If we just eliminate all those needless...