Diana Manos

Practice Fusion, Inc., a vendor of electronic medical records, announced last week that it will make use of Google's AdSense program to help sponsor free online EMRs for physicians....

The assumption that Medicare costs are being contained because one physician mainly manages a patient's care has been shattered by a study released Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The...

Physicians in Washington state say they would like to support a new regional healthcare quality study, but they remain wary of the limited time and funds allotted to the program, according to W. Hugh...

NEW ORLEANS – The Department of Health and Human Services will award an $800,000 federal contract aimed at promoting healthcare IT collaboration among state leaders. The contract...

At a House subcommittee hearing last week, Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), said it is time for a permanent fix for the Medicare fee-for-service physician payment system before healthcare for sen...

RECENT LEGISLATIVE activity on healthcare issues in Washington has focused heavily on oversight and disagreement over spending. It’s hard to say which came first....

The development of a new tool for measuring return on investment in hospital-based pay-for- performance (P4P) programs has been announced by the Leapfrog Group, HSM Group and Discern Consulting....

WASHINGTON– President Bush’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2008 calls for $70 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid over five years. The $2.9 trilli...

The current Medicare physician payment formula is "fatally flawed" and should be replaced with one that better reflects the reality of practice cost increases, say doctors, congressional advisors, law...

Employers who want to contain healthcare costs should consider implementing innovative benefit designs, said a study released yesterday by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC)....