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Defibrillators designed for use at home - though considered a new, very small area of the homecare products market - boast the highest forecasted annual growth in the homecare segment, according to Kalorama Information.
Organizations deemed "better-performing medical practices" by the Medical Group Management Association's "Performance and Practices of Successful Medical Groups: 2010 Report Based on 2009 Data," excelled in four performance management categories.
Accenture and Plexis have announced a joint solution to optimize the efficiency, cost, and reliability of Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS).
The number of health savings accounts and health reimbursement accounts continued to rise in 2010, numbering 5.7 million accounts, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute. Assets in these accounts also increased to $7.7 billion.
Precyse Solutions, which specializes in health information management, and M*Modal, which develops speech understanding and natural language processing technologies, have joined with the Geisinger Health System for a first-of-its-kind partnership to improve clinical documentation and coding accuracy.
The payer market is largely split with regard to readiness for the January 1, 2011 Level 1 compliance deadline, according to a December 2010 poll by The Gantry Group, LLC.
The Camden Group has released its annual Top 10 Trends in Healthcare in 2011, which finds pressures to reduce costs and improve quality in healthcare will trigger an avalanche of activity centered on accountable care organizations, bundled payments and patient-centered medical homes.
A.M. Best announced Monday that it is maintaining a negative outlook for the health insurance industry.
With unemployment high and state budgets tight, a recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured found nearly all states maintained or made targeted expansions of their Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program eligibility and enrollment rules in 2010.
Nearly one in three doctors cite practice management costs and administrative burdens as a chief concern for their practice, according to a new survey.