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CHICAGO – The first group of physicians participating in the Illinois E-Rx Collaborative and DrFirst’s e-prescribing initiative has begun writing prescriptions electronically....
In the second year of its Survey of Regional Health Information Organization Finance, the Healthcare IT Transition Group plans to look at the challenges of funding RHIOs that are in various stages of...
CMS finalizes details of physician p4p program The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced the details of its 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative. The volun...
Navicure joins group for electronic data interchange Navicure, an Atlanta-based provider of Web-based revenue cycle management solutions, has announced that it has joined the Workgr...
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,...
OREM, UT – With tight operating margins, shrinking reimbursement rates and competition from other facilities, hospitals and large physician groups must constantly improve their ope...
NEW YORK – When a physician meets with a patient, he/she expects to have all the latest information on hand, from the patient’s own personal health record to the latest information on...
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...
NEW ORLEANS – Mapping out prospective savings in specific service lines has helped Salem (Ore.) Hospital executives make the case for a significant deployment of information technology....
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....