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Microsoft is highlighting the importance of “community” in healthcare.

The advent of pay-for-performance initiatives and cuts in federal reimbursements for preventable medical emergencies are prompting hospitals to take a closer look at the post-discharge process. With studies indicating billions of dollars lost each year when patients return to a hospital for treatment, officials are looking for ways to reduce those readmissions.

Healthcare providers looking at large construction projects are finding that the process they use for inventory management can also be applied to bricks and mortar.

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act gives hospitals the right to appeal any insurance claim to receive 100 percent of the due payment.

Innovative programs, such as tying the payment system to the delivery system, could help bend the healthcare cost curve, according to Karen Davis, president of the Commonwealth Fund.

By deploying a value-based wellness program, the Solaris Health System has experienced a 17 percent cost reduction among employee participants diagnosed with diabetes.

A Miami-area physician practice owner blames a “systemic failure” for closing his general practice in 2006 – just three years after purchasing the established office from a retiring physician.

Profile of Nancy Babbitt, administrator,Roswell Pediatric Center P.C. in Alpharetta, Ga.

Changes in practice operations deemed necessary to meet the 25 “meaningful use” criteria proposed as part of the federal electronic health record incentive program would lead to decreased provider productivity, according to the Medical Group Management Association.

The St. Joseph Heritage Medical Group concluded a yearlong journey recently when it achieved patient-centered medical home status from the National Committee for Quality Assurance.