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IF EVER THERE WAS an administrative process tailor-made for top-down direction, it’s workflow redesign. It starts with a senior executive master plan and gravitates through the organization...
WASHINGTON – Medicare officials must make physician reimbursement data available to the public by Sept. 21, a U.S. district court ordered in late August. The Centers for Medicare & Me...
CHICAGO – The good times just keep on rolling for Allscripts. The Chicago-based provider of clinical software, connectivity and information solutions for physician practices has annou...
AHA responds to tax-exempt proposals, tax form The American Hospital Association has responded to two initiatives that would affect tax-exempt hospitals. It told the Internal Revenu...
ALPHARETTA, GA – One company’s announcement last month that it is planning an initial public offering of stock is expected to throw a new wrinkle into the competitive group purchasing mark...
NORWALK, CT – With energy costs and conservation consciousness rising, health facility managers see the wisdom behind improving energy efficiency. However, retrofitting existi...
EASTLAKE, OH – Healthcare imaging facilities should ditch their costly film processing systems, according to the vendor of a new Web-based picture archiving and communication system....
SPRINGFIELD, PA – Hospitals are continuing to look for ways to improve supply purchasing, and they’re beginning to rely more heavily on analytic services provided by group purchasing organ...
Premiums increase at slowest pace in eight years Health insurance premiums have increased at the slowest pace in eight years, according to a new report published by the Kaiser Famil...
NEW ROCHELLE, NY – New York’s Westchester County Department of Health is ditching an eight-page, paper-based application that residents have filled out to enroll for public health...