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There will be no shortage of hot-button discussion topics when the 82nd annual convention and exhibition of the American Health Information Management Association convenes Sept. 25-30 in Orlando, Fla.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a hospital inpatient and long-term care prospective payment system final rule for fiscal year 2011 that would decrease average inpatient payments by 0.4 percent.

A new initiative from the California HealthCare Foundation will focus on reducing preventable patient readmissions in 20 hospitals across the state.

St. Luke's Hospital & Health Network in Bethlehem, Pa., has leveraged its participation in three different quality initiatives to improve the quality of healthcare delivery.

Magnet hospitals, which are recognized for better patient safety and outcomes, don't provide better working conditions for nurses than non-magnet hospitals, according to a new study by the University of Maryland School of Nursing.

Michael Taylor is vice president of revenue cycle management at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. The not-for-profit pediatric academic medical center has 523 registered inpatient beds, and had total operating revenues of $1,487,857 last year. Editor Richard Pizzi spoke recently with Taylor about the organization of revenue cycle operations at Cincinnati Children's, including some steps his team has taken to boost efficient operations.

In today's payer policy environment, physician practices need an extensive focus on core business and practice management strategies in an effort to drive revenue.

Some telling hospital industry metrics have improved over the past few months.

It's safe to assume that overachievers typically set very specific goals - and then do everything in their power to bask in the glory.

Laura Winner, Director, Lean Sigma Program, Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Md.