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While vendors talk of developing newer underlying technology and marrying clinical data with financial data, the heart of business decision support systems for hospitals is still determining the cost...
Responding to consistent and widespread concern over proposed cuts to physician Medicare payment rates, the lame-duck Congress passed on its last day, Dec. 9, legislation preventing cuts through 2007....
Meeting to show progress on NHIN initiative The work of four consortia will be on display at the third NHIN Forum, scheduled for Jan. 25 and 26, sponsored by the Department of H...
As a global purchaser of healthcare for its employees, IBM is taking an active role in healthcare transformation in ways that not only promote reform, but also bring benefits and lower costs to IBM em...
The Catholic Hospital Association isn't a Johnny-come-lately to reporting community benefits. The not-for-profit organization first did work on the concept in the 1980s, publishing it...
Employers are proactively taking on spiraling healthcare costs. That's the theme of the personal health record (PHR) initiative announced in December by Intel Corp., Wal-Mart, Pitney Bowes, British Pe...
Improving the claims submission process has paid benefits for a hospital chain as it seeks to improve its facilities' performances. And Michael De La Garza expects that improving the claims...
As financial and societal impact of chronic pain continues to expand in scope, healthcare delivery systems are seeking more effective and proven ways to manage the problem as demand for specialized pa...
Congratulations! You have been named Time Magazine's "Person of the Year." Of course, it's a shared honor. You won. But that guy over there, in the corner – he won, too. And the Fed...
The Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services is casting a wary eye at billing practices that appear to represent double billing for radiological services....