Diana Manos
Information on how doctors will be measured for quality performance under the voluntary 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) has been announced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid S...
President Bush is not the only one pressing for more information to be available to healthcare consumers. According to Adam Bosworth, vice president of Google, the private in...
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,...
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....
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...
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...
WITH THE U.S. facing a 2006 healthcare tab of $2.1 trillion and healthcare a staggering 16 percent of the gross domestic product, it’s not hard to see why potential “solutions” are s...
WASHINGTON – At one of the many briefings, Congressional hearings and non-profit forums held last month in Washington D.C. on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Sen. Ja...
Deloitte & Touche, commissioned by the National Governors Association, released a report last week on the current status of healthcare price transparency as seen through various stakeholder perspectiv...
The Leapfrog Group's Hospital Quality and Safety Survey, used to designate top hospitals, has been upgraded to include standards in areas such as transparency reporting and certain billing procedures....