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When Kronos acquired Beaverton, Ore.-based Unicru last July, it mapped out a new direction in workforce automation for the Chelmsford, Mass.-based software manufacturer. A traditional focus o...
GLENDALE, AZ – In healthcare, unlike other industries, business process management (BPM) covers two different areas, business processes and clinical workflow. With both, the desired outcome is t...
Picture archiving and communications systems have moved mainstream in North America and Europe. The imaging systems, once considered pricey and cumbersome for clinicians to u...
ACCURO HEALTHCARE AQUIRES WOODMOOR GROUP Accuro Healthcare Solutions, Inc. of Dallas has acquired The Woodmoor Group, inc., a Raleigh, N.C.-based provider of Web-based accounts receiv...
ABILENE, TX – A physician-owned specialty hospital closed last month after it became the center of controversy when one of its patients died after experiencing a medical emergency that required...
SAN FRANCISCO – Practice Fusion, Inc., an electronic healthcare vendor launched last August, recently announced that it will make use of Google’s AdSense program to help sponsor free elect...
CMS ISSUES FINAL RULE ON MEDICARE BIDDING PROGRAM The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a final rule to implement a new competitive bidding program in Medic...
INDIANAPOLIS – WellPoint’s pharmacy benefit manager is offering financial incentive to its members in seven additional states for the latest generic-drug addition to its GenericSelect prog...
WASHINGTON – Criticized for allowing Medicare providers to abuse the tax system to the tune of more than $1.3 billion, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is answering back....
DENVER - In a move expected to reduce physicians’ administrative workloads, Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter has signed into law a bill to make the language in payer-provider contracts more transparent...